Liberal Talk Radio

Sorry for not blogging more during this convention. However, it looks like there’s more than enough reporting on the convention to go around. Especially from the bloggers. This week of the Convention has made me think a good deal about what it’s going to take to change undecided minds in November, and what people are [...]

Thanks for the comments regarding my piece, “On Goon Squads.” I feel like the (lost) War on Drugs is something that I’ve spoken and written about extensively (aside: the first essay I ever had published — in my high school newspaper — was about the ridiculousness of the drug war … for those who care [...]

I have to admit that I was a little surprised when McNewspaper booted that scion of objectivity, Anne Coulter, off its editorial pages. And then I read the article. Who takes this woman seriously? Any liberal who feels bad for degrading political discourse should read this and feel better. If there’s an effort made here [...]

Is it me, or does this picture of Paul Revere look suspiciously like Jack Black? Work with me here, people… It’s a slow Friday. And it’s hot.

What’s up with this? Kerry-Edwards magnets? Talk about hedging your bets! I mean, I still see a few Gore-Lieberman bumper stickers around Seattle, and I like it. Shows a sense of history, and some degree of party cred (Ok, so those of us who are driving around in ’89 Subarus with the “Clinton-Gore ’92″ sticker [...]

More and more reports keep surfacing of what a tough guy Iraqi PM Ayad Allawi is. Apparently the rumor around Baghdad is that he’s personally executed some terrorists! Most folks don’t think that’s true, but it does burnish his strongman image nevertheless. Mickey Kaus postulates that short-term democracy might have to be abaondoned to ensure [...]

The police busted a house in my neighborhood the other day. Drugs, presumably. And good riddance. I’m all for people doing what they want with their own time, but the knocks on the neighbor’s door at 4 a.m. and the needles in the parking lot were getting, um, “annoying.” I struggle with reconciling my feelings [...]

Iyad Illawi is asking the right questions: “I spoke to some of them myself,” Mr. Allawi continued. “I told them: What are you trying to achieve? Let us know. Do you want to bring Saddam back to rule Iraq? Do you want to bring bin Laden to rule Iraq? We will fight you. You can’t [...]

Fox News is such a red herring. The real conservative agenda is being pushed by CBS, which reaches 30 times the audience that Fox does. Their evening news last week pissed me off big time. Their coverage of the WMD commission’s findings was so biased in favor of the president as to be absurd. They [...]

I’ve got to come back to this one more time, not to beat a dead horse, but just because it’s become increasingly relevant as criticism of Farenheit 9/11 mounts. Here’s an excerpt from the official 2002 State of the Union Address: Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when [...]