The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

We start off Lenten podcasting (FTW!) with whether we should declare victory in the culture wars. The Right Wing's long game on the abortion/birth control debate, and after the music we continue our discussion of Driftglass's non-existent book deal. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com. Support the show

CPAC stands for "Conservative People Are Crazy (now with alcohol)", and how Rick Santorum gives our nation a true debate that spells failure for the GOP. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com. Support the show

Komen, JCPenney, and the Catholic Church are learning lessons about capitalism and how tolerance, equality, and social justice sells. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

Blue Gal has a helluva week being an involved, educated parent, and responds by writing a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Driftglass speaks to bureaucracies from the perspective of service providers, new ideas, and grant preservation. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

We present our response to the State of the Union and discuss why we are not impressed by the 'conservative establishment' freak out over a Newt Gingrich surge. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

Andrew Sullivan claims he's been blacklisted by Fox, and Newt is now a socialist? Also, why Republicans will always be aggrieved even when they win elections. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com. Support the show

We read three letters regarding protesting versus crashing the system. Abolishing the Senate? Occupying the DNC? Seceeding from Fox America? Commenting anonymously at a blog? [Careful there, buddy!] More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

Newt, two Ricks, and the real consequences of Republican Lies on real people. Plus a listener innoculates himself against David Brooks and catches Bobo Plague anyway. More at Professional Left.blogspot.com. Support the show

We wonder aloud why Andrew Sullivan thinks there can only be one "real" bigot in the GOP. Also, can we all agree to end using the word "traitor" when talking about those with whom we disagree? For America? More at Professional Left.blogspot.com. Support the show

Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus! We come up with a list of lies we've debunked all year, and debunk them end of the year list-style. Also, either you can't be a gay conservative Republican, or they ALL are. More at ProfessionalLeft. Blogspot.com Support the show

How the mainstream media puts protection from their own "vocational harm" above all else. Also, Star Trek, ObamaCare, and The Holy Roman Empire of Newt Gingrich. More at ProfessionalLeft. Blogspot.com. Support the show

DG and BG go full-court literary theorists. Newt Gingrich is a tragedy for the GOP, and the unreliability of the Beltway Narrators points directly to their own failures and complicities. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Casablanca, and Edgar Allen Poe. Really. Support the show

Why the US is like Ancient Rome (corrupt from top to bottom) and a letter from a listener about dealing with his fact-averse conservative dad. More at ProfessionalLeft dot Blogspot dot Com. PS December 4-21 is Zappadan, an annual blog celebration of Frank Zappa. Support the show

Now an annual tradition, we read from selected letters from you, our readers. Thanks so much for your listenership and support! More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

An alert reader highlights that we forgot David Brooks and David Gregory on last week's podcast. We make it up to him, and discuss why #OWS is #winning, duh. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

November 8, 2011 Driftglass interviewed on KOPN-FM (KOPN.org) on the show, "Sex, Drugs and Civil Liberties." Thank you to KOPN for permission to rebroadcast. Support the show

We discuss the conservative bubble pop that is this week's election results in Ohio and elsewhere, and the bubble persisting around the heads of GOP candidates for POTUS. Also, sexism and whither the American Dream? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

Newt is the last man standing in the GOP Bar and Grill? What podcasting for 100 episodes has meant to us, why Rachel Maddow is actually wrong about silencing Paul Wolfowicz, and at long last, optimism for America. More at Professional Left.blogspot.com Support the show

We discuss the anti-commercialism of #OWS and how in some cases it’s unwarranted. We’ve got our own Iphone app; and how come it took us so long to get addicted to Angry Birds? And from our mailbox, is Driftglass’s anonymity getting in the way of his message? If so, he can be bought! More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

The GOP Vegas Debate, Occupy the Boardroom, defending unions from old urban legends, and why angry lapsed Catholics make the best angels on earth. More at Professional Left.blogspot.com Support the show

We discuss the GOP debates as a litmus test of their base and read letters from real ex-conservatives who have found a better way. Why the media has no language for #OWS, and finally we review the political movies "Ides of March" and... "Real Steel"?!? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

Why the corporate media can't explain Occupy Wall Street and We are the 99 Percent. Plus Michelle Bachmann's Hispanic Piranha Prom and Herman Cain's "Mine Mine Mine" tax plan. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com Support the show

Recorded before the Troy Davis execution: BG does a lighting round of items proving there is the class war is kinda, well, over. Why liberal activism will never pay a living wage (because we're not d*cks) and why the Charlie Sheen Roast is EXACTLY like a GOP debate. And why the real battle we're fighting is not against conservatives, it's against... more at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot...

Is there a difference between Republicans and Libertarians? And why English Majors make the best political analysts. And Driftglass compares and contrasts a tea party gathering... with a Star Trek convention? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com. Support the show

Laughter and horror over the GOP debate; and, how do we survive the political stress of the next five years? More at ProfessionalLeft. Blogspot.com Support the show