Ep 212 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 212 Change from Within

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December 26, 2013

The difference between 'passive' and 'prioritized' politics. BG suggests we not wait for a certain generation to "die off" before pushing for change. And after the music, a somber letter regarding grief, loss and healing. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Wonkette:  Team Santorum in S.C. does an oopsie on their Hanukkah card.

Gawker:  BG's quote of the year - "I need my paycheck."

And then there's this:  No big dogs in Bejing?

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Ep 211 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 211 The Media's Statue-of-Liberty Playbook

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December 19, 2013

Turns out the media passes around right-wing memes like a football during the Statue of Liberty play. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Ep 210 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 210 The Downton Abbey Jesus

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December 12, 2013

Fox's Megyn Kelly says Jesus and Santa are white, we get a letter insisting that BOTH sides... DG reacts accordingly.

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Ep 209 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 209 Let Them Take Dog Medicine plus Limbaugh

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December 05, 2013

We read a suprising submission to an investment column about taking your own dog's prescription medication. DG does a spot-on Rush Limbaugh impersonation, plus Bible Bitch and Sci Fi University visits The Doctor.

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Ep 208 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 208 Thanksgiving and Media Double Standards

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November 28, 2013

Firing Alec Baldwin might have been the right thing, but what about other media mess ups? And some of your Thanksgiving letters (more of those next week).

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Ep 207 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 207 We Don't Negotiate With Terrorists

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November 21, 2013

The JFK and Gettysburg anniversaries yield some dangerous and nasty rhetoric on the right. Why we DON"T want Elizabeth Warren for President, and DG's thoughts on employment. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.

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Ep 206 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 206 - If you like your hurricane death toll, you can keep it!

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November 14, 2013

The mainstream media compares the Obamacare rollout to Hurricane Katrina. No, really. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Ep 205 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 205 Where are the White Women At? The Voting Booth.

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November 07, 2013

Do Virginia gubernatorial results and angry Texas voters point out that we are entering another suffragette-driven Progressive Era? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Ep 204 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 204 The Perfect IOKIYAR Moment

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October 31, 2013

Rand Paul provides a perfect instance of IOKIYAR. Also JP Morgan Chase spends your food stamp money on lobbying. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.

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Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband

I'll get to work on the airbrushed Dune / Sand Worm cake later on today.

I love you, Driftglass.

Ep 203 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 203 IT Obamacare, The Pope, and the USA is NOT broke.

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October 24, 2013

DG remembers working in IT for government, the Pope says stuff he'd have been burned for five centuries ago, and we discuss obscene campaign finance and "Inherit the Wind." More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Professional Left Podcast will be late today.

We have parent-teacher conferences today which are biting into our time.  Thanks for bearing with us!

Ep 202 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 202 Shutdown Over and Casablanca

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October 17, 2013

DG makes predictions about the media, sees Casablanca again, and after the music, we discuss whether Science Fiction is the canary in our political coal mine. More at Professionalleft.blogspot.com

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• Bible Bitch:  Romans 15 Paul sees alleviating poverty in Jerusalem as a duty.
• Homeland is the story of Cassandra 
• Books mentioned in Science Fiction University:  Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake  and   The Handmaid's Tale,  Frederick Pohl,  The Space Merchants,  and   Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People.

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Ep 201 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 201 We Need Insurance and the GOP Needs a Green Pen

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October 10, 2013

"Both Sides Don't" goes kinda viral, and the GOP loses big-time in polls and in policy. Also, we shop the Obamacare Exchanges because we have to. More at Professional Left dot blogspot dot com.

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• Hero Republican Congressman Yoho says many, many stupid things, one of which we talked about.
• Milton Mayer's Essay: "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45"
• Tina Brown asks John McSame a question that makes him poop himself.
• Driftglass and the 27% -- then and now

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Bonus Podcast: Breaking Bad Mini-Cast "Felina"

  Walter White obit as it actually appeared  in the Albuquerque Journal earlier this week.  h/t David B.

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Bonus: Breaking Bad Mini-Cast "Felina"

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October 03, 2013

We discuss the final episode of "Breaking Bad."

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Ep 200 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 200 The Republican Shutdown

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October 03, 2013

Thanks for all the support! The Professional Left Podcast is 200 episodes old! Also, the Federal Government shut down. Coincidence?

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Our last Breaking Bad mini podcast will be up later this afternoon.

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Bonus Podcast: Breaking Bad "Granite State"

Vanilla Coke, Bitches!

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Bonus: Breaking Bad Mini-Cast "Granite State"

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September 26, 2013

We discuss the penultimate episode of the series "Breaking Bad."

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Ep 199 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 199 Ted Cruz and the One Sided Recovery

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September 26, 2013

Blue Gal has a Bible B*tch for Ted Cruz. And we talk about why the beltway media enables crazies like him. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Another Breaking Bad podcast will be up later this afternoon.

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Karoli's must-read piece from Crooks and Liars on the consequences of Media "Both Sides"ism.

Lawrence O'Donnell: Beltway media likes political lies.

Motivational Biden (LITERALLY)

And here is the list of Driftglass's favorite science fiction characters, as mentioned in Science Fiction University:

Lazarus Long - (multiple stories) (Heinlein)

Jake Stonebender - (Callahan's series) (Spider Robinson)

Dana Franklin - (Kindred) (Octavia Butler)

Frank Frank - (Man in the High Castle)  (Philip K. Dick)

Case - (Neuromancer) (William Gibson)

Gulliver Foyle (The Stars My Destination) (Alfred Bester)

Cirocco Jones (Titan)  (John Varley)

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Bonus Podcast: #AMCBreakingBad "Ozmandias"

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Bonus: Breaking Bad Mini-Cast "Ozymandias"

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September 19, 2013

The Professional Left discusses the latest episode of AMC's Breaking Bad.

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Ep 198 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 198 There Is No Spoon, Louie Gohmert!

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September 19, 2013

Louie Gohmert compares guns and murder to spoons and obesity. Also, news of the week and Science Fiction University. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.

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Another Breaking Bad podcast will be up later this afternoon.

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Ep 197 The Professional Left Podcast plus BONUS #AMCBreakingBad Minicast

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Ep 197 End of the Eleventh Level Chess Myth

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September 12, 2013

We agree with Digby that it's time to end the Obama as multi-level chess master myth, but also end the Dronemaster McWorseThanBush myth, too. Also, what does it look like when we're all asked to be entrepreneurs and we're all broke? (bonus Breaking Bad Podcast will follow). More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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What Digby Said.


And since last week's was so popular, here's another Breaking Bad podcast.

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Bonus: Podcasting on Breaking Bad "To'hajiilee"

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September 12, 2013

Driftglass and Blue Gal, AKA "The Professional Left" gab about the latest episode of AMC's Breaking Bad. Spoilers for the latest episode are included.

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Ep 196 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 196 Tall Guy Walks Into a Bar, Syria, and The Future

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September 05, 2013

Analogies with Syria, and in Science Fiction University, the future as mostly correctly predicted by Isaac Asimov. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.

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Asimov's predictions for 2014 correct back in 1964.

 And there's a bonus episode on Breaking Bad, too.

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BONUS: DG and BG on Breaking Bad

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September 05, 2013

Ten minutes of bonus content where The Professional Left discusses the end of AMC's Breaking Bad.

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Ep 195 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 195 Syria, and Bob Cesca on Fixing NSA/FISA

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August 29, 2013

We talk for ten minutes or so about Syria, then Bob Cesca of The Bubble Genius Bob and Chez Show joins us to discuss what we should advocate for in terms of FIXING the NSA/FISA Court transparency problems. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Question: Too Soon?

Ep 194 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 194: The Empathy Show

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August 22, 2013

Republican power stops with their lack of empathy; why Twitter is not a community, and Science Fiction University.

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Ordinances of Secession for the Southern States

Science Fiction University:  How the internet reacted to the casting of Heath Ledger as the Joker in Batman.

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Ep 193 Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 193 Both Sides Don't Have Birthers

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August 15, 2013

The week's politics. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors owns Peggy Noonan.

Colbert Report's wonderful story on a gay mayor bringing LGBT equality to rural Kentucky.

David Brooks debates Laura Ingraham etc. on the GOP "seizing the center."  Yeah.

Both sides don't have Birthers.

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Ep 192 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 192 Money is the Dark Side of the Force

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August 08, 2013

BG goes on a rant against a media who forgets that "million" is a number. And in Science Fiction University, comparing West Wing and Twilight Zone. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.

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Rick Santorum says liberals make it uncomfortable to shower at the YMCA.

Wonkette:  Mitt Romney worries about income inequities?

Johnny Rotten reviews Katy Perry.

Cenk Uygar interviews Reza Aslan.

Science Fiction University:  Table of contents to Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories.

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Ep 191 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 191 The Good As Enemy of the Perfect

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August 01, 2013

Sex, Fracking, Lotteries, and is compromise always a dirty word?

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Mitch McConnell asks McCain and Schumer “when are you all getting married?”

Whoops McCain’s caregivers lost him again.

In These Times:  The Good versus Perfect debate on Illinois Fracking

Republican Wall Street types interfere with Illinois’ state credit rating.

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Ep 190 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 190: Carlos Danger and Sh*t Sandwiches

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July 25, 2013

Anthony Weiner, Harold Ford, Jr. and the best SF books for new readers. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Harold Ford, Jr. does a blah blah blah on "bipartisan gridlock" without once blaming Republicans.

Transcript of Obama comments on Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman verdict.

Fox News leaves Obama economic speech coverage for commercial and "breaking news" on Royal baby name.

Science Fiction University: IO9 commenters recommend SF books for beginners.


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A little somethin' for the cable news graphic serfs - #RoyalBaby