Liberal Talk Radio

The folks at Authentic GOP yet again raise the bar for tastlessness and insensitivity with their “Hotel Gitmo” t-shirt. Part of the prroblem with these wrong-wing haters, after all, is that these efforts to offend and shock are so completely devoid of irony. Yeah, GOP, your vision of an impoverished, embittered future full of undereducated [...]

Good news! The Koreas have agreed (in principle) to agree to seek a peaceful resolution to their potentially nuclear standoff. Is it me, or do these wacky Koreas seem more and more like a teenage couple? Anyway, no simple agreement to try and move forward will erase the fact that, after Iraq, North Korea is [...]

Brian Steinburg and David Yeaworth have a smart op-ed in today’s Seattle Times on the plans for the Seattle Streetcar. We have 2 streetcar-related issues right now: one, the current waterfront trolley is set to be demolished, and two, a $45-million line is about to be constructed from downtown to Lake Union. Steinburg and Yeaworth [...]

Matt Yglesias makes the worthwhile point that for all the liberal hand-wringing about the coming Thousand Year Rove, the GOP coalition is fundamentally unstable. It relies on unsustainable spending levels and constant tax cuts: take away either one (which sheer numbers suggest we’ll have to do eventually) and the coalition falls apart. But I just [...]

I agree with this analysis of today’s WaPo article on Lobbyists. But the piece leaves out a few key facts that are central to understanding just how entrenched the Wall Street-K Street “Axis of Pork” has become: 1. While it’s interesting to note that the number of registered lobbyists has doubled since 2000, from 16,342 [...]

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A tragic story unfolded yesterday at Seattle’s Federal Courthouse. I walked by on my way to lunch yesterday. The presence of tinted-window Suburbans indicated that maybe something big was going on. Turns out a man looking for a hearing on child support payments brought a grenade into the courthouse. After 25 minutes of negotiations, police [...]

Finally! An electronic consumer product innovation that WASN’T driven by the demand for porn. Or at least we think so. LaCie’s new Biometric Hard Drive scans your fingerprint before allowing you to access the data on it. Way cool. Though, I must ask: When the mechanism fails and you have to ship it back to [...]

I have to choke down a certain amount of bile to even contemplate what’s coming … ah, there it is . Got into a heated argument yesterday (at Fife, WA’s, own Poodle Dog Restaurant) over whether or not Hillary can be a winner. In between bites of undercooked hash browns and sips of tepid diner [...]

Looks like there are going to be fewer “limits to freedom,” than the President wants. The PATRIOT Act is a beast. I remember during the ’04 campaign when General Wes Clark eagerly tried to read all 1,200 pages, which, if he had succeeded, would have been far more than most members of Congress have actually [...]