Ep 127 - Let the Wild Rumpus Start! Maurice Sendak, Gay Marriage, and the Broken Congress

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We miss Maurice Sendak, get a great letter from a prison guard, and can states reject treaties that haven’t even been ratified? Can a crazy congresswoman give away the other half of her citizenship, too? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.comSupport the show

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for May 11th, 2012.
0:03.1	It's not safe for work.
0:04.7	Record live from just outside the Wild Rumpus.
0:07.8	It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
0:19.7	And we will miss Mori Sendak.
0:22.3	Yes, we will.
0:23.2	Let the wild rumpus start.
0:25.9	I think there's a wild rumpus starting.
0:28.1	I don't know if, you know, that Barack Obama kind of started a wild rumpus, you know.
0:32.1	Well, we both are from the families of educators and readers.
0:37.2	Yeah, we're readers, folks.
0:38.3	Get used to it.
0:39.3	We're here.
0:40.2	We read.
0:40.8	Get used to us.
0:43.0	And books like that always figured prominently in both of our childhoods, I'm pretty sure.
0:49.4	Oh, yeah.
0:49.7	Fair to say.
0:50.5	And in the passing that subversive literature down to another generation has been
0:57.2	our great pleasure well and it the the wild things is such a seminal book about
1:05.1	unconditional love and discipline and fear and scary thoughts that can't hurt you and being brave in the face of
1:15.8	those thoughts and has so much so much to give us in terms of a political lesson as well i know
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