Liberal Talk Radio

Has been released, as I’m sure you’re aware. The only question now is, when will “Doctor” Bill Frist give up his medical license after grossly abusing it by making a “diagnosis” of Terri via videotape. Oy, and this is the man who will probably end up reforming the American health care system. Lord help us.

Rupert Murdoch vs. Wal-Mart. Jeez, who do you root for in that one?

The Center for American Progress has a smart memo out on the troubled Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and why it’s bad even though free trade is good. Check it: Opposition to DR-CAFTA need not, and should not, signal opposition to trade agreements generally. Both the foreign policy and economic interests of the United [...]

Amen: “The Democratic Party at its best has always been when it has been about the future.” – Virginia Governor Mark Warner Tired of one political party that wants to take us back to the 1950s and another that wants to take us back to the 1960s? Me too. Update 6/14: What he said: “Republicans [...]

Seattle City Councilman Richard Conlin was on KUOW’s Weekday this morning, talking about the South Lake Union Streetcar, ticking off a list of downtown mass-transit projects, and, after mentioning the Monorail, he added, “if it gets built.” Or something like that. It stopped host Steve Scher in his tracks (pun intended). Steve asked him to [...]

I really like this idea, if only in spirit. The Nobel Prize nomination process seems like it’s about this close to being completely de-legitimized in the celebrity-driven era. I fear we’re a few celebrity Nobels away (Bono, anyone?) from a future where big-shot publicists put together “For Your Consideration” packages and lavish the Nobel committee [...]

Hey! Looks like maybe the meeting with Blair is changing the way things work at the White House: It’s suddenly no longer okay for oil industry lobbyists to take the red pen to global warming reports. And about those energy task force notes? Et tu, Cheney?

This afternoon, taking Knute Berger’s advice, I stopped by the South Lake Union Discovery Center to drink some of the Paul Allen Kool-aid. For the uninitiated, South Lake Union is a bizarrely underdeveloped stretch of prime downtown real estate, extending from the business core to Lake Union. It has a strange and colorful history, and [...]

I’m sorry, but this seems really bogus to me. The Washington State Democrats are getting back the $750,000 they had to raise for the hand recount that gave Gov. Gregoire the election. With interest. Now that the election was upheld (thanks to said recount), the state’s going to pay them back. Why? And furthermore, are [...]

I’m reading the Health Care debate going on over at Political Animal. A couple of things strike me: First, the commenters are rabid in their support of a European-style single-payer system. I would expect this from the commenters at Kos or Atrios, but for some reason I thought Kevin’s readers would be a little more [...]