Welcome to Side Dish #40. This is our weekly podcast with co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose where we take a look at recent headlines, cultural topics, and offer our perspectives on an occasionally mad, mad world.

On today’s menu: protests spread after the Eric Garner grand jury decision, celebrity dating habits, Landrieu loses the South, one child commits suicide after bullying while another’s parents show what support can be in a world too cruel.