Friday, April 25
Ep 229 The Professional Left Podcast
Friday, April 18
Ep 228 The Professional Left Podcast
Thursday, April 17
Blue Gal tries car shopping.
Ed note: This post is not a spam catcher. :D
Hello! I'm a fifty year old mother of three and I am interested in that 2014 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta you have listed on Cars.com for $479,995.
My pediatrician recommends my children sit in the back seat until they reach the age of 12. I notice this car in the picture does not have a back seat. Is it because the back seat is optional? You really can't charge extra for a back seat with a price like that.
Also, if I get an eight year car loan at 2.9% interest that car will cost $5600 a month. I don't even begin to make that much, and besides, that's a lot of money for 3.6-second 60-mph time, which, you gotta admit, isn't all that great for a 731-hp car with 509 lb-ft of torque. I know, because I've done my research! But some information is missing. Tell me, does the Berlinetta have one of those automatic parallel park it by itself thingies? Because sometimes I have to parallel park at Junior Dude's orthodontist.
I hope we can work out something about the payments. How about my husband writes a number on a piece of paper and you check with your manager? That is, depending on the optional rear seat. Thanks!
Hello! I'm a fifty year old mother of three and I am interested in that 2014 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta you have listed on Cars.com for $479,995.
My pediatrician recommends my children sit in the back seat until they reach the age of 12. I notice this car in the picture does not have a back seat. Is it because the back seat is optional? You really can't charge extra for a back seat with a price like that.
Also, if I get an eight year car loan at 2.9% interest that car will cost $5600 a month. I don't even begin to make that much, and besides, that's a lot of money for 3.6-second 60-mph time, which, you gotta admit, isn't all that great for a 731-hp car with 509 lb-ft of torque. I know, because I've done my research! But some information is missing. Tell me, does the Berlinetta have one of those automatic parallel park it by itself thingies? Because sometimes I have to parallel park at Junior Dude's orthodontist.
I hope we can work out something about the payments. How about my husband writes a number on a piece of paper and you check with your manager? That is, depending on the optional rear seat. Thanks!
Friday, April 11
Ep 227 The Professional Left Podcast
Links for this episode:
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- Andrew Sullivan shares his opinions with Stephen Colbert without mentioning that every one of them directly contradicts he was saying five months ago.
- Allison Kilkenny, “I Give Up” -- A Battle Cry of the Privileged.
- The New Yorker - Jeffrey Toobin - “This is My Jail.”
- Firing your extra-marital girlfriend and seeking re-election on the same day.
Monday, April 7
Friday, April 4
Do these cookies make my progressivism look big?
I'm going to be one of the curmudgeons who said two weeks ago that Honey Maid's "This is Wholesome" campaign is over the top. The only "alternative" couple missing from the first ad was chandelier bondage aficionados. It felt like an overly eager attempt to catch a ride on the rainbow Oreo / Cheerios mixed couple bandwagon, and the art studio "response" stirs in an episode of Portlandia.
The response on social media at this point`to anything promoting "different family" is completely predictable: Wingnuts shout "not my values!" Everyone else shouts "Yeah Huh Our Values!" And meanwhile the BRAND NAME of the product is mentioned and endorsed a million times in the name of outrage.
Congratulations to the Madison Avenue geniuses who knew it would work, ("That hipster clicktivist dollar is a good dollar!") but are we really at the point where buying or boycotting a cookie/cereal/cracker is how we prove our politics? Really?
That said, hands off my Girl Scout Cookies, because, Sisterhood.
Ep 226 The Professional Left Podcast
Links for this episode:
The button below allows listeners to throw a contribution specifically towards the Professional Left Podcast. Thanks for your listenership and support!- Jim Hightower and the tragedy of one adjunct professor
- The Ryan Budget II: Rand Harder.
Wednesday, April 2
Friday, March 28
Ep 225 The Professional Left Podcast
Links for this episode: Hail, Hail, The Neocon Gang's All Here!
- Donald Rumsfeld, who thinks Barack Obama is stupider than a "trained ape".
- Paul Wolfowitz, who doesn't want you looking in the rear-view mirror because...Hitler?
- David Brooks, who can't remember Iraq.
- David Gregory, who can't remember Iraq either.
- Also Andrew Sullivan is a really outstanding hypocrite.
Friday, March 21
Ep 224 The Professional Left Podcast
^^^The GOP Hipster discussed in this week's podcast.^^^
Links for this episode:
- Charles Craphammer talks to American Youth about Russia
- This week in Both Sides
- The Business of Ignorance
Friday, March 14
Ep 223 The Professional Left Podcast
Friday, March 7
Ep 222 The Professional Left Podcast
Links for this episode:
- Room 222 with Karen Valentine!
- Glenn Greenwald vs. Glenn Greennwald
- David Brooks vs. David Brooks
- Bill Nye gives Creationists a helping-hand
- Dear Rachel Maddow: Why bother asking scary questions when the answers are too frightening to mention?
- Whatever Ed Schultz is smoking, can we get enough for everybody?
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Thursday, March 6
Another crazy liberal on the tee vee. Recognize her?
So why did they cut all the stuff about increasing taxes to pay for schools? Cuz that's what I said the crazy liberal lady was talkin' about.
Wednesday, March 5
#GetCovered My Healthcare Story is an Open Letter to the Governor of Illinois
March 5, 2014
Governor Pat Quinn
207 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
Dear Governor Quinn:
Thank you so much for your embrace of Health Care Reform. I deeply appreciate living in a state where ensuring health coverage for all citizens is a priority.
I am having a problem receiving such coverage for myself and my husband, however. My family of five lives on an income of less than $51,000 (ACA guidelines for Medicaid). My entire family used to be covered by Medicaid. On October 31 my husband and I were cut off of Medicaid, and my children were changed over to the Family coverage, $10. per month per child. I was assured by those on the ACA exchange helpdesk, etc. that I would do well on the exchanges at my current income.
Allow me to add that my husband and I are well-educated and very familiar with government and customer service bureaucracies on a first-hand basis. We have sat on the other side of that desk, and are very patient with those trying to provide services to a vast number of people with limited budgets and time frames.
In late December I finally was able to register on the ACA website, and lo and behold my husband and I are eligible for...Medicaid! I laughed with one of the ACA helpdesk people, well knowing that not only was I being moved from state money to expansion money, but that your office could count me as “uninsured” -- a success story for your statistics!
Really, Governor, I don’t mind being used as a statistic. But I received a letter from DHS on January 8 asking for income confirmation, and responded IN PERSON with a stack of all requested documentation on January 15. Since then, I have spoken once with a case manager in the Springfield DHS office, who at first did not believe that my paperwork was in his office. He then found it and told me I was now “in the pipeline.”
It is now March 4. The deadline for ME to have insurance is at the end of the month. When is the deadline for DHS to provide me with coverage, or at least an answer? The ACA website will not allow me to apply for subsidies to buy insurance, because I am eligible for Medicaid under the expansion. So I wait, uninsured. I am certain this is not what you or ACA intend to have happen. I know you are working with limited resources. But please, do what you can to get me and other Medicaid applicants processed quickly.
Your staff may call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX if you have any questions. Thank you very much.
With all good wishes,
Frances Langum
cc: Kathleen Sebelius, Department of Health and Human Services
Duly noted for this blog entry: Thank God I don't live in a damned Red State, and the DHS waiting room is the most soul-crushing place I have ever sat in my entire life with the possible exception of the Heating Assistance Office.
Friday, February 28
Ep 221 The Professional Left Podcast
Friday, February 21
Ep 220 The Professional Left Podcast
Links for this episode:
- Joe the Union Plumber
- Newt Gingrich never disappoints and never misses a meal.
- For the Party of Jefferson Davis, Obamacare is the Missouri Compromise
- The Big New Republican Rebranding Plan...looks remarkably like the old Rebranding Plan
- Watch on Amazon.com: The Loving Story (Loving v Virginia Documentary)
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Friday, February 14
Ep 219 The Professional Left Podcast
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Links for this episode:
- Penis Pumps for Freedom.
- Margaret Talbot talks about planning parenthood.
- Tom Perkins: Voting is too important to be left to The Poors.
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Friday, February 7
Ep 218 The Professional Left Podcast
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Friday, January 31
Ep 217 The Professional Left Podcast
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MHP and bell hooks
huff post politics: Can the Republicans form their own DLC? (gag)
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Friday, January 24
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