I like your show and specially your musings as you call it. It is not only honest, intelligent but it has heart. There is a spiritual side to it i am missing in most the lefty talkers.
They were talking about renewable energy as catching up with fossil oil – but i didn’t hear about the fact that it is already for a long time much more expensive as the USA has to fight wars for the very same which costs an insane amount of fiat.
regards/Zanta

Re: the voice mail discussion at the end of this episode, ‘progressive argument against polygamy?’ I don’t think there’s an argument against polygamy; the progressive argument is against marriage. Or, more exactly against marriage privilege.

We have to ask what privileges are derived from the institution of marriage. Lower taxes for couples, right (just for starters)? Why do couples who are sanctioned by a church get a tax break? Why does the state ape a religious institution by recognizing it’s so-called ‘marriage’? Does this get into State/Church separation issues? Does this get into issues of Corporate taxation versus working class income taxation? Was State-sanctioned marriage a tool to make income tax more palatable to workers (who, unlike businesses don’t profit from income) and at the same time reinforce religious ideological ideas about sexual repression and male dominance and encourage “traditional” sexual relations?

What is progressive about advocating for marriage of any kind? I’m not convinced that “marriage equality” is progressive at all. Equality sounds great, but marriage has serious issues.