I have been greatly enjoying the weekly Slate Political Gabfest podcast – it’s both informative and informal, gets deeper than the sound bites but still moves right along, and while fairly journalistic (Slate is part of the Washington Post) has a liberal bent without being unquestioning.

One thing I especially enjoy is the “Cocktail Chatter”, where each of the gabbers (regulars are Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson) highlight something that grabbed their interest during the week that would make interesting conversation during weekend parties.  While I don’t go to many parties on the weekend, the idea is a great one, promoting the one thing, brilliant or perplexing, that most stood out for the week among the tweets, feeds, email, podcasts, searches, and so forth.

So my first choice for weekly chatter has to be the Slate Political Gabfest itself.  Kudos on an entertaining and informative show!