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Monday, December 31
Friday, December 28
Ep 160 The Professional Left Podcast
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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 160 The Dick Armey Invasion?
“Even Tom Friedman” blames the Republicans for the current debacle; The Dick Armey invades Freedomworks, and how are today’s pundits like an always-wrong astrologer? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.
Dick Armey invades Freedomworks
Joan Walsh gets it: Armey is a grifter.
The National Review Online Cruise!
EVEN Tom Friedman says it’s the Republicans! /snark
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Friday, December 21
Gagnam Style, Eat Your Heart Out
Again, if the universe must end, make it at least bounce to a rap interlude from....Terence Stamp? What the hell?
Ep 159 The Professional Left Podcast
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 159 Just Make Louie Gohmert Speaker Already
A reflection on Sandy Hook; the GOP goes still lower, and interruptions from middle child. Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, December 18
Friday, December 14
Ep 158 The Professional Left Podcast
This podcast was recorded before the tragedy in Connecticut.
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 158 The Two Americas
[This podcast was produced before the tragedy in Connecticut. Our hearts are broken for the victims and their families.] We discuss just how many "two Americas" there are. 2% versus 98%, the Coasts versus the interior, the South and the rest of us, Red versus Blue, and decide that the Media Bubble really is in a world of its own. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.
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Tuesday, December 11
Hey @Mr_Electrico, I figured out what I want for Christmas*
Okay, you guys know I have a LOT of yarn and a LOT of projects lying around in various states of completion. And a very understanding and supportive husband.
What I have is known as "yarn."
What this is above is "ermahgerd yarn."
*Driftglass and I don't actually use each other's blogs to communicate. I just wanted to post the yarn.
It's from Sheeping Beauty, ha.
Friday, December 7
Ep 157 The Professional Left Podcast
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 157 "That's Why They Call It Money"
Money in politics goes way farther and wider than even we think. Boehner has a binder, and how can there be a war on Christmas with so many Christmas trees in the White House? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.
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Friday, November 30
Ep 156 The Professional Left Podcast
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 156 Dark Matter in the Media Universe
How are David Gregory’s war stocks doing? The real lack of transparency in our media. Are we ignoring Howie Kurtz? And who were the real losers in this year’s election? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
And here's the Murphy Brown clip Driftglass mentions:
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Friday, November 23
Ep 155 The Professional Left Podcast Thanksgiving Letters Show
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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 155 The Thanksgiving Letters Show
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! We read your letters on the air. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
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Friday, November 16
Ep 154 The Professional Left Podcast
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 154 Post Election News Dump and GOP Equals The Confederacy?
We discuss all the GOP freakout over the election results. Is the Confederacy all that's left of the GOP? More at professionalleft.blogspot.com
Princess Sparkle Pony - expert on Callista Gingrich
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College student guest columnist for WSJ thinks GOP needs supermodel makeover
The Anti-Corruption Act
Red State (link goes to Red State): “Demography is only destiny when you party is obsessed with race as the Democrats are.” No, it really says that.
Crooks and Liars: Laura Ingraham lies about the Southern Strategy.
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Tuesday, November 13
Andrea Mitchell, Queen of Changing the Subject
How many cocktail parties did she attend with Gen. and Mrs. Petraeus?
And God forbid you should talk about the extramarital sex lives of anyone else in her Rolodex.
She really seems nervous.
Thanks for being you, Mrs. Greenspan. The Village is proud.
Friday, November 9
Ep 153 The Professional Left Podcast
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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 153 Election 2012 (yay!) and the Fiscal Cliff
Even after their shellac-ing, the GOP is always Wrong but never in doubt. And a brief discussion of framing the fiscal cliff (hint: this is NOT a case of “both sides”). More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
- Romney's ORCA Fail Whale
- Golden Oldies: 1990s Republicans predict economic apocalypse if taxes go up one dime.
- Blue Gal's very popular Tumblr image (Stefon at Romney HQ)
- CBS News: Romney "shellshocked" by loss
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Monday, November 5
Testing a new podcast player. What do YOU think?
Stitcher Radio is now providing the player above for their content providers. If anyone has an opinion about this one as opposed to our Buzzsprout embedded player, feel free to leave me a comment. Thanks!
Why you should always wait for Election Week to fill up the Hummer
From this here blog November 4, 2008:
Dear Oil Companies: Faaahk You.
According to the Energy Department's weekly survey of filling stations, the average price for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline dropped 25.6 cents nationally to $2.40 over the past week, the lowest since gasoline sold for $2.37 a gallon Nov. 6, 2006.
Notice anything about that 2006 date?
No one in the media or the industry better open their pieholes and tell me it's a coincidence that the lowest gas prices for two election years running is the week of the election. Don't tell me Exxon-Mobil doesn't have a rule about that. I won't believe you and I don't care to.
Panties image above from my post on the same damn subject from late September, 2006. Having a four year old blog means loving the archive feature.
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Fast forward to today. And guess what I see on my news stream?
Gasoline prices post biggest fall in nearly 4 years: survey
The average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gasoline took its biggest drop since 2008 in the past two weeks, due to lower crude oil prices, a big price drop in pump prices in California and Hurricane Sandy, according to a widely followed survey released on Sunday.
Honestly, let's scrape up reasons why prices drop that have nothing to do with the election. Gas prices are always, always, at their lowest point of the year election week. Oil companies, price fixing, end of story.
Dear Oil Companies: Faaahk You.
According to the Energy Department's weekly survey of filling stations, the average price for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline dropped 25.6 cents nationally to $2.40 over the past week, the lowest since gasoline sold for $2.37 a gallon Nov. 6, 2006.
Notice anything about that 2006 date?
No one in the media or the industry better open their pieholes and tell me it's a coincidence that the lowest gas prices for two election years running is the week of the election. Don't tell me Exxon-Mobil doesn't have a rule about that. I won't believe you and I don't care to.
Panties image above from my post on the same damn subject from late September, 2006. Having a four year old blog means loving the archive feature.
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Fast forward to today. And guess what I see on my news stream?
Gasoline prices post biggest fall in nearly 4 years: survey
The average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gasoline took its biggest drop since 2008 in the past two weeks, due to lower crude oil prices, a big price drop in pump prices in California and Hurricane Sandy, according to a widely followed survey released on Sunday.
Honestly, let's scrape up reasons why prices drop that have nothing to do with the election. Gas prices are always, always, at their lowest point of the year election week. Oil companies, price fixing, end of story.
Sunday, November 4
Today is my EIGHT YEAR Blogiversary
To those of you who remember when I used to post uninhabited panties with every post, when I did audio blogs and video blogs by myself, when I lived in Alabama and went on hard times and my readers bought me a new laptop, the skype chats, salons, meet-ups, and above all, the laughs, THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FRIEND.
Friday, November 2
Ep 152 The Professional Left Podcast
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 152 Hurricane Sandy, David Brooks, and Octavia Butler [walk into a podcast]
The worst storm in centuries, the worst David Brooks column in memory, and some really good science fiction you may have missed. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, October 30
Happy Birthday to my Wonderful Husband
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In addition to being such an amazing blogger, he's also the very best husband, an amazing stepdad, and a wonderful guy. xoxo
(No comments here, go over to his place and leave a note, buy him a shot of single malt, wish him well. He's not really on Facebook. Thanks.)
Friday, October 26
Ep 151 The Professional Left Podcast
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 151 Stop Your Robocalls, Callista Gingrich!
The Professional Left gets a robocall from Newt’s former mistress. The final Presidential debate is me-too Mitt. Also should we cover “reasonable conservatives”? More at professionalleft.blogspot.com.
Friday, October 19
Ep 150 The Professional Left Podcast
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Ep 150 Town Hall Debate and Can We Ignore Certain Right-Wing Lunatics Yet?
We discuss the Town Hall Debate (Good Obama Showed Up!) and try to figure out if ignoring Ann Coulter and others will do any good. Also, why the Serenity Prayer is useless when it comes to global warming and the future of planet Earth. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
PS People are asking about the prayer that I read on the air. Here it is.
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Monday, October 15
I hate to do this to POTUS the night before his big foreign policy debate...
But I was checking the top 100 podcasts for "News and Politics" on Stitcher Radio and...
I'm afraid you'll just have to eat our dust, Mister P.
I'm afraid you'll just have to eat our dust, Mister P.
Friday, October 12
Ep 149 The Professional Left Podcast
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Ep 149 BIDEN'D!
The Biden/Ryan debate versus High School Debate Rules. Blue Gal forced to watch FOX. And why we won’t eat out of Tom Brokaw’s cereal bowl. And a letter from a listener on the drug war and what do we do about Obama’s conservatism? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
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Thursday, October 11
Tuesday, October 9
But enough about me, what does ANDREW SULLIVAN think of me?
He was good at it before, but it's only under the tutelage of Tina Brown that Sully has really excelled at the "LOOK AT ME BEING TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS" attention whoring.
Friday, October 5
Ep 148 The Professional Left Podcast
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 148 Debate Fail? Or High Broderism on Parade?
Romney lies his way to victory, but as Driftglass says this week, "the problem with our system is not that Republicans are liars. The problem with our system is that nobody calls them out on it." And thanks to our listeners! This week we hit one MILLION total downloads! More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.
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PS. I wish there was a better version of this online but I haven't found it. From "Guide for the Married Man." Very Mitt like, eh?
Thursday, October 4
Friday, September 28
Ep 147 The Professional Left Podcast -- corrected
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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 147 CORRECTED. Republican Denialism Will Rise Again!
[The earlier upload of this podcast had some dead air in the first ten minutes. This episode is corrected.] This was the week Republican Denialism reached its own polls, math, and even the election itself. What would Jesus say? And who would he dope slap? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
The 1001 Burkean Nights of David Brooks.
George Soros shakes out the sofa cushions.
The madness of Bay Buchanan.
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Friday, September 21
Ep 146 The Professional Left Podcast
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Ep 146: 47% and Mitt Romney’s Political Sister Wives
Mitt Romney’s secret video and how many sides of his GOP “family” think he’s cheating on them. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
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Thursday, September 20
I don't always post about Rush Limbaugh, but when I do...
...and he's talking in specific, measurable terms about US penises getting smaller, I just figure he oughtta know.
Tuesday, September 18
A Note on Neocons and "Anti-Semites"
Sweet Kosher Crackers Maureen Dowd and a certain blogger I sleep with have both been dragged through a "you're being an anti-Semite" stew just because they noticed that Romney has surrounded himself with Neocons from the George W. Bush administration.
Listen up, Republican Party people, it's not our fault that so many of those same Neocons who worked for Bush and want back in the White House under Romney (and really, what the hell?) are Jews of a certain generation and political stripe. (OOH! She said stripe! That's obviously a holocaust prison camp uniform reference! She's an anti-Semite!)
Paul Wolfowicz's World Bank Scandal happened after he and his not-to-be-named ethnicity Neocon Club got us into a war that made him, the Vice President (Jewish? I don't think so), and many others rich. They did it for money and to please their own brand of theocracy. (Anti-Semite reference to Jews and money, oh my G-d!!!)
This Brandeis graduate (Affirmative Action, bitchez!) has faced greater sieges from stupid self-serving bullies who-just-so-happened-to-be-Jews than you could ever know. And if anyone attempts to deflect criticism of the worst foreign policy in the history of America --by calling any critic of that policy and the ASSHOLES who put it into practice-- an anti-Semite, a holocaust denier, a Nazi, an enemy of peace (yeah THAT one), in any way, I gotta big bag of kosher candy hearts for ya right here:
The first box is for you, John Bolton. And may God have mercy on your soul.
Listen up, Republican Party people, it's not our fault that so many of those same Neocons who worked for Bush and want back in the White House under Romney (and really, what the hell?) are Jews of a certain generation and political stripe. (OOH! She said stripe! That's obviously a holocaust prison camp uniform reference! She's an anti-Semite!)
Paul Wolfowicz's World Bank Scandal happened after he and his not-to-be-named ethnicity Neocon Club got us into a war that made him, the Vice President (Jewish? I don't think so), and many others rich. They did it for money and to please their own brand of theocracy. (Anti-Semite reference to Jews and money, oh my G-d!!!)
This Brandeis graduate (Affirmative Action, bitchez!) has faced greater sieges from stupid self-serving bullies who-just-so-happened-to-be-Jews than you could ever know. And if anyone attempts to deflect criticism of the worst foreign policy in the history of America --by calling any critic of that policy and the ASSHOLES who put it into practice-- an anti-Semite, a holocaust denier, a Nazi, an enemy of peace (yeah THAT one), in any way, I gotta big bag of kosher candy hearts for ya right here:
The first box is for you, John Bolton. And may God have mercy on your soul.
Monday, September 17
No, really @Wonkette, you suck at photoshop.
I was sick earlier today and unable to beat DG to the wailing wall of photoshop fail that is Wonkette's Liz Cheney as Dick Cheney or whatever:
Had I been well and able to sit up in bed, it would have been an in-house, intra-marriage Photoshop race. I would have won.
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Or, maybe no fair because I didn't use the same original photos:
Friday, September 14
Ep 145 The Professional Left Podcast - Romney and Libya
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 145 Learning from Willard’s Libya Lies
We use the words “Poor Romney” for the first and last time. Also, a few words about Presidents and War, and the Chicago Teacher’s Strike. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
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