This episode of Punditocracy features special guests The Maggot Punks, a bawdy band of atheists and agnostics based out of Wichita who have been baiting anti-abortion activists since 2002. Maggot Punk organizer Steve Pottorff and spokesperson Doug Ittner spoke with us about their agit-prop, pro-choice pranksterism. It's a politics and culture gagortion!

This week's holiday theme is out with the old and in with the spew, a New Year's Heave wrap up of 2006! Yes, New Year's celebrations are upon us; those precious few hours at the end of a long 12 months when we all get really drunk and try to forget how shitty the previous year was. It's with that depressingly prosaic ritual in mind that we here at Punditocracy turn to the New Year's resolutions of the famous and powerful, because no one cares about the pilates DVD you bought at Target!

Do you resent Jesus for making everyone else celebrate his birthday? Has your good will toward men soured into sociopathic rage toward carolers? Do you feel an uncontrollable urge to beat the feces out of that fat child predator in the red suit who smells like cheap wine and hangs out at the mall? If you've answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then you're probably bipolar...but you're also a potential recruit for the War on Christmas! Punditocracy brings you front line reports of the yule-tide terror from both sides of the manger massacre. Join us for an unflinching look at jingle hell. It's Punditocracy's coverage of the War on Christmas...nog will be shed!

This extra chunky installment of Punditocracy smears itself over such wide ranging topics as the Iraq Study Group, Jerry Falwell's monumental buttocks, and pounding our Wiinis til it hurts. It's a bunker-busting-sized politics & culture cluster bomb! (Music: The Black Keys, "Just Got To Be")

Dread the holiday weekend because you'd rather snort giblets up your nose than speak to relatives? Fear not! Punditocracy is here with Thanksgiving talking points to help you deal with obnoxious kin. We give you the right (and wrong) answers for politically uncomfortable questions at the family turkey trough. After they pass you a ladel full of guff, you can hand them a slice of shut-the-hell-up with whipped rage on top! It's a politics and culture public service announcement!

Can't write blurb...must play Wii...

Oh, fine: The blossom wilts on Rove's turd, Trent Lott (unlike the South) rises again, Galen likes giant-ape porn...

Now leave me to fiddle with my Wii!

(Music: "New Slough" by The Blue Van)

Punditocracy's Electioneering Boogaloo wraps up with a post-mortem of the Republican electoral corpse! Following the historic Democratic tidal wave on Tuesday, we offer bleary eyed insight and exhausted exhaustive coverage of everything political (it was a long, long night on Tuesday). We pour a little malt liquor on the curb for our fallen conservative homies and raise the roofie-coladas to congratulate our ascendant progressive compatriots. It's a politics and culture cocktail...drink up! (The musical selection this episode was "Rock & Roll Evacuation" by Electric 6).

Join Punditocracy for our pre-election coverage of the November 7th midterms! Watch teary eyed as America uses the snake of democracy to unclog its political toilet! Galen and Gavon handicap the races while insulting the handicapped (meaning John Kerry's humor disability) and generally belittle the republic (including Rush Limbaugh, Phill Kline and Dane Cook). Be sure to also tune in on Wednesday night when we'll have post-election coverage and mighty hang-overs! (This episodes musical selection is "Monster Hospital" by Metric)

Punditocracy's Midterm Electioneering continues as we interview that rare breed of voter who has yet to watch their idealism drown in the festering cesspool of modern politics...the teenager! Members of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats of Lawrence High School sit down for an intelligent and civil discussion that should shame the rest of us who wallow in the depraved, filthy gutters of hyper-partisanship. Listen to an awkward old man "rap" with his young "homies" about such "crunk" issues as Iraq, Phill Kline, the draft, evolution, contraception, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. (This week's musical selection was "Danger, High Voltage!" by Electric 6)

This suspiciously respectable episode of the politics and culture podcast features an interview with Democrat Nancy Boyda. Nancy's running as a grass-roots insurgent to represent the 2nd Kansas Congressional District in the US House of Representatives, and she's not afraid to smack around her Republican opponent Jim Ryun (or even her own party) with a rhetorical folding chair. Join Punditocracy for the latest coverage of midterm election carnage!