Ep 186 The Professional Left Podcast

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Fellow podcaster Matt Filipowicz got robbed on his way back from NN.

Bob and Chez podcast.

Matt Taibbi on advocacy journalism.

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Hey, Hey! Paula [Deen]

“Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n###ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” Jackson alleges Deen told her. “Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn’t it?"

Another of Paula Deen's problems is she romanticizes the Confederacy.  "Southern Tradition," "Southern Heritage," "Southern honor,"  and "The South will rise again." BS.  

The Confederacy practiced slavery.  

Nothing romantic or honorable about it.

Ep 185 The Professional Left Podcast

Link for this episode: You can answer the science fiction trivia questions in advance or play along with DG. Thanks to Robert J. Sawyer for his permission to use these questions.

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Ep 184 The Professional Left Podcast

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David Brin -- Three cheers for the Surveillance Society!

Ready Player One, science fiction novel recommended by The Professional Left.

I love reading @MargaretAtwood

Finally started Year of the Flood this week. I have to catch up because the third book in her trilogy comes out in September. (BTW I recommend the audio book version of book one: Oryx and Crake. Campbell Scott's narration is really good.)

 I came to this paragraph:

   She relocates several slugs and snails and pulls out some weeds, leaving the purslane: she can steam that later. On the delicate carrot fronds she finds two bright-blue kudzu moth caterpillars. Though developed as a biological control for invasive kudzu, they seem to prefer garden vegetables. In one of those jokey moves so common in the first years of gene-splicing, their designer gave them a baby face at the front end, with big eyes and a happy smile, which makes them remarkably difficult to kill. She pulls them off the carrots, their mandibles chewing ravenously beneath their cutie-pie masks, lifts the edge of the netting, and tosses them outside the fence. No doubt they'll be back.

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 What are you reading this summer?

 I have several paperbacks by John Green on my list. The Fault in Our Stars was a lovely read. And I finished Three Junes  by Julia Glass (yes, I am catching up, as I said). Hard time getting used to the character "Fern," but in the end she fit into the story.

 Share your summer reads in comments. Thanks.



 P.S. For more Margaret Atwood from my archives, click here.

UPDATE:  This made my whole summer:

Ep 183 The Professional Left Podcast

My "YouTube Debate" question from 2007, which wasn't played at the debate. One commenter noted that the answer to my question is a state secret. :D



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Huskies React to Darryl Issa Calling Anyone Else A "Liar".

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#GameOfThrones Finales We'd Like to See ( #GoT )

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Sansa's long-lost husband suddenly appears!

"You don't know nuttin' bout nobuddy, Jon Snow."

"That was some dream!  Three woodsmen, you say?"