Ep 290 The Professional Left Podcast

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Anthea Butler: The decision to forgive is rooted in faith. The desire to forget is rooted in racism. 

Ta-Nehisi Coates:  What This War Was Over.



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Ep 289 The Professional Left Podcast

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Second Amendment and slavery.

William F. Buckley interviews Jesse Jackson:  Is America Hospitable to the Negro?

The Guardian on corporations suing whole third world countries

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Ep 288 The Professional Left Podcast

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• New Yorker short-short story, "Love is Blind and Deaf." 
• Charlie Pierce on John Thune's lying liar Obamacare tweet.
• Driftglass runs the Chuck Todd interview in total.  

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Ep 287 The Professional Left Podcast

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• Hell Is Working at the Huffington Post
• Wapo:  Journalists need to practice what they preach.

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Ep 286 The Professional Left Podcast

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New Yorker review of David Brooks’ book IGNORES his political writings

AND David Brooks hedges his bets with a pro-Hillary column  

NY Times “Democratic Party becoming too liberal at their PERIL!”

Bruce Bartlett “Fox news makes Republicans Stupid”

Joe Scarborough - Elizabeth Warren must attack Amtrak unions to be taken seriously.

The marginalization of Bernie Sanders has begun.  

Ann Coulter goes full racist  

CBS reality show The Briefcase  See also here.

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Ep 285 The Professional Left Podcast

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This Week plays both sides!  on Iraq.... (Driftglass)

From Science Fiction University:  Tony Curtis tells the Yvonne DiCarlo joke.

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Ep 284 The Professional Left Podcast

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Everybody knows Morning Joe is a serial liar (Driftglass)

Luis Lang of Fort Mill SC and his gofundme page.

Reza Aslan on Scripture (The Daily Show)

PrideFest in Springfield IL

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Ep 383 The Professional Left Podcast

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Badass Teachers Association

John Oliver on Standardized Testing

Bernie Sanders and Al Franken work on Senior Citizen nutrition; Rand Paul snarks.

David Brooks: The Great Project Continues  [dg]

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Ep 282 The Professional Left Podcast

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Chuck Todd disses Bernie Sanders,  2010.  

the view from Morning Joe’s  Acela corridor train car.

Bible Bitch Jeremiah 22-23

Karoli on Baltimore and lead paint.

Baltimore and the MacArthur Apartments - how to fix urban blight.

Wonkette links to National Review so I don’t have to.

Newsmax Defends Hillary Clinton.  OMG

Judith Miller on The Daily Show.  Ugh.

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Ep 281 The Professional Left Podcast

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Ted Cruz says it's going to be Lord of the Flies for the next 20 months.

Hillary's fifty-state strategy.

John McCain hates Rand and hates Cruz.

Seventeen Magazine and Millennial politics

Judith Miller is a liar, but you knew that.

Bible Bitch Psalm 49

David Brooks recycles his “That Young Man Would Make a Fine President” column

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Ep 280 The Professional Left Podcast

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Hillary vs the Pures see also  Charlie Pierce:  Amy Goodman helps outline the Hillary Debate.

Comment at Driftglass about "cuts for those people not for us."

Marco!  Rubio!

Governor Hedgefund cuts autism funding on World Autism Day

David Brooks on Privacy...or he wants to date a cop.  Not sure which.

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Ep 279 The Professional Left Podcast

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New Yorker Article on Inequality

Ben Carson's interview about Walter Scott shooting - "both sides!"

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Ep 278 The Professional Left Podcast

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Psycho Super Mom actually wrote the lyrics for “Scary Indiana”

Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge (also on Audio Book)

Maine’s Governor scrubs transcripts of his Stephen King accusations.

Science Fiction University suggestion:  Heinlein’s Glory Road
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The New Lunch Counter (Photoshop)

Ep 277 The Professional Left Podcast

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The Nightly Show - Lewis Black and evangelical “respect.”

David Kaib’s twitter stream  (rhymes with vibe, my apologies)

Jesus gets corrected by the Phoenician woman

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