Liberal Talk Radio

Today it’s Memorial Day, so let’s take a moment to honor all those who have made the supreme sacrifice. Myself, I spent the weekend in Eastern Washington. Around the campfire last night talk turned to the WTO and its effects. My favorite free-trade argument is Tom Friedman’s: No two nations with a McDonald’s will go [...]

About a month ago, The Professor wrote a thought-provoking post, entitled Liberalism /= Relativism, where he argued that Liberals need not be moral relativists. In fact, recent events show that it is Conservatives who, ironically, are today’s relativists. Read this piece by E. J. Dionne, and, more importantly, the followup at The Slant. The bottom [...]

This is priceless.

See this post at The Carpetbagger Report. Looks like we might finally be getting somewhere with real, independent redistricting. Rep. John Tanner has introduced a bill: * States would be required to establish independent commissions of at least five members to review new census data and come up with one, or several, plans to present [...]

Who’s On First (Shrub Version) Note: Email forward from my cousin Justin. Sadly, I cannot take credit for this gem. It’s probably old … my guess is recycled since at least Nixon. Anyway, I got a chuckle out of it. If you know who’s responsible, please let me know so I can give kudos. Thx! [...]

Good to see that The Stranger has revamped their website, including an all new blog, subtitled, in typical Stranger Hubris, as “Seattle’s Only Blog.” Whatever. I’m just glad they decided to update their site. The old one was so… umm.. 1997. Update: After reading through the blog posts, I notice that a disproportionate number of [...]

If you’re looking for something to do, definitely take a gander at the Seattle Times’ wonderfully in-depth coverage of the Klallam Village of Tse-Whit-Zen. Several years ago, the State began work on a dry dock facility near Port Angeles, but had to stop when they discovered this massive archeological site and burial ground (literally hundreds [...]

Filmmaker Ismail Merchant has died. I had no idea that “Merchant Ivory” referred to two mens’ names. I always thought it was some kind of reference to 19th Century imperial Britian. Weird.

Josh Marshall has a strategy vis-a-vis Social Security. Responding to the idea that Republicans are interested in making IRAs easier, he writes: But, for my part, all of the Democrats’ mental energy should be going into strengthening retirement security for middle-income Americans. Period. That’s really not an issue to hash out with Republicans because most [...]

After dedicating his political future to this judicial nominee business, It must be awfully painful to write this sentence: Mr. President, though I am not a party to the memorandum of understanding signed last night by 14 of my colleagues… In other words, “I’m the Senate majority leader, but I’m…uh… out of the loop.” Can [...]