Jesse, not Brenda but, the thing with the president's tailors was the last segment on Invisibilia the clothing episode (I JUST listened to it this morning).

My favorite podcasts: On Being, Invsibilia, Reply All, Surprisingly Awesome, Radiolab, the new radiolab legal one.

Laura, sorry about blowing up your wall.

msbelle, also, I heard an episode of Science Versus and it was fucking awesome. It was right in my sweet spot of data vs. implications. Good stuff.

There are some political podcasts I like. They discuss politics without just going on partisan rants.

Keeping it 1600 - Political podcast with a couple of former Obama staffers and usually a guest.

NPR Politics - Political podcast with NPR correspondents. Surprisingly fun.

Slate's Political Gabfest - Excellent political podcast.

The Axe Files - David Axelrod interviewing various people involved in politics including conservatives.

Non-technical Geeky Stuff:

Doctor Who: Verity! - A group of women discussing Doctor Who.

Nerdist - Chris Hardwick interviewing people involved in geeky TV shows and movies. I cherry-pick this one.

Laura, sorry about blowing up your wall.

Seriously, I could not be more pleased than when I see polite disagreement on my wall. This is not the case in a lot of places! Freddy can take it. We were kids together. Dated in our teens. He went off to Vietnam and saw horrors as a medic that no teenager should ever have to endure. It changed him forever, but I will always care about him. His page used to be all God and Trump. Now it is just all God because he has soured on Trump. (I take partial credit for that!) My friends were polite and logical in their disagreement. It is all good. His friends abuse me which puts him in a position of having to defend me!

I have no podcast recs because I have never been able to stay focused on them. My mind wanders.

Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium

That's the one! It's lagging right now, because it's based solely on state polls, and there've only been three post-conventions (NV, PA, GA). But it also tracks Obama's net approval rating, which has been fun to watch (4% today!), and even takes a stab at the likely Senate and House result.

Meanwhile, xkcd has things to say about the fact-checkers: [link]

I think sacrifice possibilities is definitely still sacrifice. It reminds me of a segment on NPR where they talked about the meaning of gifts at Christmas were initially intended to be sacrificial. In fact, they implied the most meaningful gifts are ones that require sacrifice from the giver.

Kat! Hi, hi, hi! How are Noah, Grace, and Katie? Well, I hope (and you too).

I think you're right, above. I just think that at a certain income level, when you "give up" family time (or whatever) for work, it is no longer sacrifice. It is a choice (and freely admit this comes from my judge-y gut).

This time last year, DH and I weren't only broke, we were in the hole. Because he handles our bills (and because he tries to shelter me) he didn't tell me and we ended up in a big damned financial mess, because this kind man doesn't know how to say, "No," to us.

The money troubles were related to a few things. Ben got into (and went to) an expensive private college. At the time he accepted, TWoP was still active and I was still making good money.

When TWoP shut down, I shut down because I was frigging depressed (over it and family things, including death) and didn't find new work.

In a world in which we didn't have a kid in a private pricey college, it would have been okay. I was in too much denial to think about the numbers. DH was too gentle to break the news to me and started robbing Peter to pay Paul.

And my point, which I'm sure I had, is now lost. So there.

Podcasts: Pop Culture Happy Hour! Also Malcolm Gladwell' Revisionist history.

I second, PCHH. Also West Wing Weekly, Who? Weekly (for serious celebrity snark), Lore, and, not to seem totally frivolous, CBCs Ideas.

Jesse, not Brenda but, the thing with the president's tailors was the last segment on Invisibilia the clothing episode (I JUST listened to it this morning).

Cool, thanks.

Other podcasts: Another Round, Double X, Code Switch, Extra Hot Great, Making the Sausage. That last one is interviews with people in all different aspects of the TV industry, and is generally fascinating.

Man, more podcasts I will never manage to keep up on. But good to know they are out there! I am Marking this discussion for later reference in case I should find myself able to listen to a whole bunch of stuff.