The Progressive Book Club: Oprah for the Thinking Reader

The Progressive Book Club can be considered an antidote to the poison that daily spews forth from anti-progressive Dr. McDreamies like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rectal Noun*. Although it is fair to compare Oprah's Book Club to the Progressive Book Club in terms of the kind of mindset that occupies the residents of both, that comparison is there mainly for the humor value. The real antitheses of the Progressive Book Club are those that view blind faith in conservative values as a cat named Virtue that licks its paws in restful acceptance of its belief that not reading is somehow vitally connected with a concept known as pride.

The primary goal of the Progressive Book Club, in the words of President Elizabeth Wagley, is harnessing the extraordinary distributive power of the Internet for the purpose of creating a platform for new ideas. For any conservative out there who might be reading this, let me explain what a new idea is by harking back to progressive ideas from the past with which you may now be familiar: ending slavery, allowing women to vote, getting the weekend off from work and receiving free health care from a country that expects allegiance from its citizens not only intellectually, but at the cost of your very life in support of a war against nations that have never posed an authentic threat to your way of life.

The Progressive Book Club offers books that stand in direct contrast to the misinformation that spreads daily from Fox News and talk radio and the lie-filled books being hawked at stores daily by titanic mountains of fleshy stupidity like Karl Rove. When George W. Bush publishes memoirs it will almost certainly become the biggest selling pop-up book in history thanks to mindless lemmings of the non-progressive moment who will line up in their Dale Earnhardt T-shirts to plunk down the $50 to buy it. The Progressive Book Club offers well-researched alternative points of view that benefit readers most by virtue of the fact that the books that are included in this club are based on, well, facts. That alone stands in direct contrast to books written by lying liars like Karl Rove and John Gibson.

If you are interested in taking this country out of the hands of madmen like Sarah Palin and the American Taliban Party-I mean the Tea Party-then you should head over to progressivebookclub.com and sign up immediately. Knowledge, it has been said, is power. A look at the effects of the American Taliban Party reveals that ignorance is power, too. The Progressive Book Club is, strangely enough, needed more now than it was needed even during the Dark Age of Bush.

* Rectal Noun is the anagram I coined so that I would not have to include the name of a certain skeletally thin (both in terms of body weight and intellectual heft) blonde conservative female pundit and alleged author. I think Rectal Noun is a female; it's hard to tell. She could be a female impersonator like she's a human impersonator.