Liberal Talk Radio

I try to keep the self-serving meta-posts on the nature of liberal talk radio to a bare minimum. But I have to take a minute to comment on this:
If liberal talk radio is failing, then how come Clear Channel keeps adding liberal talk stations?
The truth is driven more by economics than ideology, it seems. [...]

“I think the Democratic Party has to offer a clear alternative to the American people”
- Governor Howard Dean, speaking here
“The obligation of the Christian is to recover the capacity for nonconformism.”
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, paraphrased here
So what are all the liberal Catholics worried about? Seems to me that Pope Benedict XVI is simply taking [...]

The former altar boy in me can’t help but be excited by the pagentry surrounding the election of Pope Benedict the XVI. Still, I can’t help but be disappointed that the great and good of the Catholic church couldn’t do better than a former member of the Hitler Youth and an avowed reactionary conservative [...]

Reading Bruno’s post about how the U.S. may be the only place where the poor don’t hate the rich (and thanks for the props, by the way, Bruno), I’m inspired to think a little about why capitalism and democracy must go hand in hand.
In grad school, we used to talk about three development models for [...]

Just a quick shout-out to my partner in crime. Looking forward to hearing all your tales of travels. Sounds like a h**l of a trip!

A pretty humorous post from one of the Kossaks. They’re funny when they lighten up a bit:
“President Bush’s tax returns are a little different. He claimed the Christian Right as dependents, he declared the 2000 election as a gift, and he tried to write off all the mileage he got from 9/11.”
–Bill Maher
My [...]

There’s a documentary running on the History Channel about the Roosevelt presidency. Interestingly, the broadcast notes that the show is presented by the AARP (sink a social security reform bill, anyone?), while the website makes no mention of that.
It’s the 60th anniversary of FDR’s death, and we should rightly remember him as a great [...]

One of the more interesting things about Peru is that it has, for the first time, an Andean (and not Spanish) president in Alejanrdo Toledo.
Toledo was discovered by some Peace Corps workers when he was 16. They thought he had talent and so they brought him to the US to educate him. In [...]

I could write for days about my trip to Peru, but I’ll try and keep it focused to the stuff that relates directly to this site.
Peru, is, of course, a fascinating country. In terms of countries with significant archeological sites, it has few rivals. The ruins of the great Inca culture are littered [...]

I’m back. Thanks to Prof. Matski for holding down the fort.
So first off, let’s look back at the four predictions I made before I left. Looks like if I had stayed a couple weeks longer, all four would have come true. Nonetheless, they’re on their way
1. Tom DeLay will step [...]