Friday, February 26

Ep 325 The Professional Left Podcast



The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 325 Trumpenfreude

February 25, 2016

The center scrambles to deal with the inevitability of Trump. Part 2 of podcast recorded after the Houston GOP debate. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Reince Priebus should start drinking

Morning Joe in the tank for Trump, on a hot mic.

Sci Fi University:   Read & discuss the first few paragraphs of “The Cold Equations”

Tokyo Sexwale?  Or Tokyo Sex Whale?   

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Friday, February 19

Ep 324 The Professional Left Podcast



The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 324 : Republicans Are Told The Past Actually Happened!

February 18, 2016

Perfect justice for the Bush family, via Donald Trump, Oprah, Apple, Illinois Budget crisis, and Science Fiction University holds a short story workshop. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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Eugene Robinson on the Saturday GOP debate.  

Kasich blames George Bush for blowing the surplus; wants balanced budget amendment.

The Week:  Conservatives have failed Donald Trump’s Supporters

Bible Bitch:  Hebrews 12

Vox:  I've spent years trying to get skinny. Oprah's Weight Watchers ads convinced me to stop.

Bill Scher:  Republican primaries are part of the SCOTUS resistance.  


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Friday, February 12

Ep 323 The Professional Left Podcast



The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 323 Be Excellent To Each Other!

February 11, 2016

Buh Bye Rand, Christie, and Carly; OMG Robot Rubio; Obama comes to Springfield; New Hampshire wrap up. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.

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Saturday, February 6

Something I wrote in 2008....

...seems apt for this primary season and our politics in general. To paraphrase:

There's no point in allowing our "concerns" to rob us of our peace. I think we sometimes enshrine our own emotional reactions to wrong, and it blocks us from doing what we can to change things.

Remember ma hunnies, one can be enraged over lead in the water.... and funding for children with autism... and death in Gaza and elsewhere.... (this scene from Henry V shows a war crime, the murder of servant boys on the field of battle)...

...and yet not know the day is ours: "Praised be God, and not our strength for it."





And I hope you watched to the end, when even the victorious King himself is reminded that he is no more than a leek-wearing Welshman. And that his honesty is his most important quality.

"God keep me so."

Stay strong, stay focused, stay humble, fight on.

Texts with my 13 yo

Friday, February 5

Ep 322 The Professional Left Podcast


The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 322 Rubio Makes Three Equal One

February 04, 2016

Rubio is the savior for scared-of-Trump conservative pundits. The family fight in the Democratic Party. Rodeos we have been to already. And Bible Bitch and Science Fiction University. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com

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New York Magazine’s profile of Iowa Republican voters.

Bob Schiefer laughs at Ted Cruz’s lying.


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