Republican Candidates' Unresolvable Dilemma

How to bend the knee and kiss the poison ring without actually touching the poison ring.

No Half Measures

Professional Left Podcast Episode 1020: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

"I've developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time."  -- Charlie Brown.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1019: Where's the Beef?

“A__ Po_itics is _oca_."  -- The legacy media needs to buy a vowel.

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For The Record, Toby Was Right About Hamburger

And CJ was 100%, pollyannaish wrong about "the public".

Because there is no such thing as "the public".  There is the plurality who does their best to listen to facts an experts.   And then there's that huge chunk of the public which is either drunk on Fox News lies or desperately wants to blame "both sides".  

And taken together, the Fox News zombies and the Both Siderists are enough to capsize the country.

I Am The Liberal Media!

It's Not Science Fiction, It Just Seems Like It

It's not from an adjacent dimension or an alternate timeline.  

There was a time within living memory, kids, when intelligent people sat around tables having civilized conversations about interesting subjects.  And you could watch it on the teevee!

From 1982, this is Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Wolfe discuss science-fiction writing with Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin on the Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS), the predecessor of today's A&E (Arts and Entertainment Network). 

The program was called "Nightcap: Conversations on the Arts and Letters."

Enjoy.

And Crown Thy Good With Brotherhood

From sea to shining sea.

I Am The Liberal Media!

Professional Left Podcast Episode 1018: Meet Dem Candidate Dr. Cinde Wirth (IN 06)

“If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied."  -- Abraham Lincoln, Illinois politician

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1017: Judgment Day

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"  -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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