This is the podcast for August 12, 2011.

It's not safe for work.

Recorded live from just outside the Rick Perry Palooza, prayer, fasting, and corn dog food court.

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

I did hear from several sources that fasting was optional at the prayer paloza.

Do they have a little agnostic section set up outside in the parking lot? He didn't have anything but evangelical Christians, period.

Well, since everyone in the media is a filthy commie liberal, I would assume everyone who

covered it was a filthy commie liberal, so they'd have a special section for them, or

they could bathe them, hose them down with holy water, save their souls, or whatever they

do, and things like that.

We're going to talk about wishful thinking tonight.

Yeah, let's talk about wishful thinking tonight. Yeah.

Let's talk about wishful thinking.

I think both sides do it.

You should never say.

Both sides do it, but they do.

Everyone is guilty of wishful thinking.

As am I, as are you.

And I get two or three emails a week.

We're not going to focus on the left this week in terms of wishful thinking.

But, you know, I do get two or three emails a week of if only Bernie Sanders would run for president or if only – and it's usually some liberal hero.

If only Ted Kennedy was still alive, you know, that kind of thing.

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