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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?"

Ep 182 The Professional Left Podcast

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• Michele Bachmann cuts and runs.
• Erick Erickson continues to get every possible thing spectacularly wrong
• Time to rename forts dedicated to Confederate traitors.
• War Pimp John McCain continues to alley-hump whoever will show him a little leg.
• Whither Chris Hayes?
• Article on early 20th century Hungarian spec fic writer Frigyes Karinthy (from the science fiction quiz) 

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The Mitch McConnell Legislative LOLcat!

It's how he and his GOP cohorts handle non-"repeal Obamacare" legislation and also too judicial and cabinet appointments.

Ep 181 The Professional Left Podcast

The on-air "talent" at Morning Joe cope with one of theirs referring to Senator Graham as "a woman."

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Ep 180 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 179 The Professional Left Podcast

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Political Garbage Chute on the Mark Sanford win.

Politicus USA on FreedomWorks protesting “Obama agenda loving” ...Comcast?

RH Reality Check reports on anti-choicers saying contraception “ruins” marriage.  

Gawker:  Jeffrey Skilling buys his way out of jail time.

Tablet Mag:  Dr. Who and Theology

Enders Game movie comes out Nov. 2013 - the first trailer.


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Space Ghost is back at Meet the Press

I know.  You never see Moby and John McCain in the same room.  Coincidence?

Ep 178 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 177 The Professional Left Podcast

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We Are Respectable Negroes:  Jennifer Rubin, slash fiction for conservatives

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Ep 176 The Professional Left Podcast

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Win a lifetime supply of #yarn? Define, please.

Really, if you're having a contest to "win a lifetime supply of yarn" you have to define your terms.

What kind of yarn?

What's a lifetime?

How much yarn is enough?

Who am I kidding?

I would enter this contest no matter what.  If it's acrylic yarn, I would share it with my charity knitter friends, and all of us would make beautiful things for cancer patients and the newly widowed and also babies and African AIDS orphans, because That Is What We Do.  And no matter how "much" yarn it is, I am obviously a member of the SABLE club, (Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy) so no problemo on that front, either.

It turns out the contest winner will get one $480.00 gift certificate to one of the big online yarn stores each year for 20 years.

I can live with that.  :D

Ep 175 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 174 The Professional Left Podcast

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Matt Taibbi on David Brooks

Dan Savage’s book The Committment:  Love, Sex, and My Family

NY Times:  China’s State-Sponsored Amnesia

Alex Pareene - The Mark Penn Test

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Ep 173 The Professional Left Podcast

Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL)

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The Tennessee Muslim Mop Sink

Blue Gal is reading from Exodus 23.

David Vitter takes time away from cosplay to lie about "Obama's Free Cellphones"

Congressman Aaron Schock threatened with a primary by Club for Growth (h/t Princess Sparkle Pony)

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Ep 172 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 171 The Professional Left Podcast

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2009, BG takes on David Sirota

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Ep 170 The Professional Left Podcast

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• Frank Rich on #StallWithPaul
• Remembering that Republican strategy of heaving cinderblocks into the political traffic didn't happen by accident or through a lack of "Leadership"
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Good Racist People”
• Stephen Colbert proves once again that he is the One Nerd who will Rule Them All.

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Remember the LAST talking filibuster, @chucktodd?

Because, no, really, the last time a LIBERAL did it, and guess what, Chuck? You can buy the written (yes, written, NOT transcribed) text of the speech, all eight hours of it, for your KINDLE.

 I sure hope Regnery Press has exclusive! plans for the entire text of Rand Paul's remarks. Not just the 30% right part, but the 70% crazy part, too.

 Also, I haven't forgotten what douchie beltway insider Chuck Todd said about Sanders.

 "I joked with a White House staffer earlier that day, I`m like, hey, are you going to give us anything on this Clinton-Obama meeting because other than that, I've got about eight hours of Bernie Sanders tape to start running on-air, you know, sort of half joking. 

 And then, you know, they bring out the big dog, Elvis comes into the building, and guess what, Bernie Sanders, his show ended up getting put on page four," White House correspondent Chuck Todd said on MSNBC.

 Yer librul media!

Ep 169 The Professional Left Podcast

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Jon Stewart for Code Pink?

Apparently, yes, and good for him.**  I signed, and encourage you to as well.

But also apparently Stewart was TOO BUSY to pose in a code pink long sleeve shirt?


**Especially since he's not hijacking a blog comment thread to do it.  :D

We interrupt this blog for COOKIES. Girl Scout COOKIES.

If you're interested in buying Girl Scout Cookies from the middle child online, email me at

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Subject line:  Girl Scout Cookies.

I'll send you an invitation to do just that.  Then we will give you information to send payment to us and her troop will fulfill the order.

You can also find a troop in your area with the Find Cookies! search engine at the top of this page.

Thin Mints and Thanks-a-lots (shortbread with chocolate on the bottom) are vegan.   All of them are Kosher Dairy.

I didn't even watch the Oscars (tm) but I'm a fashion psychic

I saw a pic of Heidi Klum with her boobs hanging out (it would have been okay if Seth MacFarlane had sung "Hey Heidi, just Heidi, we SEE your boobs.")  Anyway I photo-shopped some better-looking lack-of-cleavage for her on Tumblr.

Then I see Michelle Obama fixed the dress already and it looks better in silver, too. 

Ep 168 The Professional Left Podcast

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The Verge: Romancing the drone: how America's flying robots are invading pop culture

Joan Walsh in Salon: Targeted Killings: Okay If Obama Does It?


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Ep 167 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 166 The Professional Left Podcast

Happy Friday, ma hunnies.

Tony Perkins helps me write to the Boy Scouts

Thanks so much to my Facebook pal BB for forwarding me a Boy Scout alert email from Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.  Tony had composed an email for me to send to the Boy Scouts about remaining homophobic for Jesus and America.  I edited it and sent it anyway.  Here's my version:

Dear Boy Scout Council of America: 

Thank you for making the Boy Scouts of America an organization with the conviction, honor, and character that serves as a model for every American. 

As you're aware, a new proposal indicates that the Boy Scouts of America may finally overcome decades of homophobia by accepting scouts and leaders WITHOUT REGARD for sexual orientation 

I have intentionally steered my (straight, but so what?) son from joining Boy Scouts because of your previous lack of regard for the rights of those who do not meet up to some narrow standard of  "manhood."  I consider bigotry against LGBT people to be un-American and inhuman.   

My daughters are both in Girl Scouts, and you'd better believe they love their lesbian camp counselors as much as their straight ones.  You know, the one who won't cook unless it's grillin' outdoors?   Nickname Jimmie?  She's a cute one. 

But I digress.  Do not let bullies from the American Family Council or other pseudo-Christian LOBBYING organizations stop the progress this organization can make.   There is no straight sex badge in scouting.   BECAUSE SCOUTING IS NOT ABOUT SEX. 

Anyone who tells you otherwise is a total pervert.  Therefore, I'd watch out for that Tony Perkins dude around the young ones. 

Thank you, and God bless you.

Ep 165 The Professional Left Podcast

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Free Birth Control Cuts Abortion Rate Dramatically

Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius


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Bay Buchanan, Real Estate Agent, for real!

Bay Buchanan has abandoned political punditry for the world of Beltway Real Estate. (h/t Blogenfreude) She's got a 25-year-old picture on her website. Also, no mention of her "work" with Romney.


 


Confession: I genuinely feel sorry for the old battle axe. Where's her wingnut welfare? No imaginary desk at the Heritage Foundation for an (admittedly insane, but she could phone it in) trooper, Jim DeMint, you hemorrhoidal fuckface?

Three years ago this week

I published this photoshop, "Hare Reid, Leadership Down." Plus ca change, plus la meme chose.

Ep 164 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ep 163 The Professional Left Podcast

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GOP Retreat has "bad optics."

It's the corruption.


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Ep 162 The Professional Left Podcast

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Driftglass:  Everybody goes to Rachel's

SE Cupp can't answer why civilians need assault rifles.

Crazy gunz and ammo CEO will "start killing people." 

Jon Stewart compares gun control to drunk driving.  

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Ep 161 The Professional Left Podcast

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This Club Has Everything! (Photoshop)

The Vituperative, Foul-Mouthed, Speaker of the House.

Also, shrill.