Liberal Talk Radio

Whoa. This is bizarre: “The concept is simple: On major spot stories — especially when events happen early in the day — we will provide you with two versions to choose between,” the AP said in an advisory to members. “One will be the traditional ‘straight lead’ that leads with the main facts of what [...]

Common sense prevails here, folks. Three simple rules to customized license plates: 1. If you’re going to smoke pot in your car, don’t order a plate that contains “420.” 2. If you’re going to cruise the red-light district soliciting prostitutes, it’s probably wise to avoid “IPAY4SEX.” 3. Finally, if you have a penchant for drinking [...]

Ok, listen: I’m not Joe Lieberman’s biggest fan. I’m not a Joe-pologist or anything. Still, there’s room for him in the Democratic Party. And anyone who says otherwise is a moron. Joe Lieberman is a full-throated partisan Democrat, plain and simple. You might think his foreign policy is too hawkish or he’s too close to [...]

I think Billmon was the first blogger I really encountered, kind of accidentally. So there’s always been a place in my heart for the old lefty. So I was disappointed when he “retired” last year. And heartened to see he’s back with a hilarious set of quotations that, shall we say, put the Red back [...]

I’m pretty bummed about the ANWR vote today. Really bummed, actually. I dropped home for lunch to pick up my passport (no, I’m not moving to Canada… just going down to S. America to visit a friend next month), and I caught the immediate fallout on CNN. I know it’s far from a done deal, [...]

Rollingstone.com has made available pieces from their tribute to Hunter S. Thompson. It inclides writings from Jann Werner, Raoul Duke, and others. Definitely worth a read.

I’ve never read Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone, but I think about it alot. Which means I should probably read it. In the meantime, I’ll settle for critiques of it like this. The book argues, I think, that American society is becoming more individualist than ever, due mainly to the decline of social institutions. Fewer bowling [...]

More of this. Density: good. Sprawl: bad. Transit-oriented sprawl: manageable.

Nice piece in Sunday’s Times by Tom Friedman on Egypt, Israel, the U.S., and free trade. They’ve hammered out a deal to export Egyptian exports made in certain “Qualified Industrial Zones” duty free to the U.S. It makes me think of an idea I had during the campaign that I don’t think I ever expressed [...]

Bill Whalen at The Weekly Standard begins an article on Geena Davis’ new TV show: FEAR NOT: this isn’t another column about Hillary Clinton fashioning herself into a pragmatic, centrist force to be reckoned with in 2008, or how America always loves a good makeover–be it a toned-down junior senator from New York, a slimmed-down [...]