Liberal Talk Radio

It’s been noted widely around the web today, but I have to point out here that right-wing uber-nut James Dobson’s Focus on the Family website has an article on how to tell if your child is becoming a homosexual. Unfortunately for Dobson’s readers, the site doesn’t quite go far enough. For example, fi you think [...]

Janes reports that US defense procurement will increase more than 50 percent, to a total of almost $120 billion annually, by 2011. (So much for Rummy’s promise to reform the military.) Ask yourself — is it worth it?

I find the following staggering — and sickening: Defence expenditure in the US will equal that of the rest of the world combined within 12 months … The US defence budget reached US$417.4 billion in 2003 – 46 per cent of the global total. That’s almost $1400 for every one of the approximately 300 million [...]

I suppose, after our conversation in Episode 207, we should link to this site. In particular, Democratic strategists will want to look at this post. Though I don’t agree with all the conclusions (I wouldn’t pick an anti-gay Western Goveror for a national ticket just ’cause he/she is “electable”), they do provide palpable evidence that [...]

Check out this post on Craig’s List, for what has to be the most organized collection of dissent ever collected: The following are in three-hole punched and in three-ring binders — twenty-six binders in all: 50 Years Is Enough: 5/99 – 4/03 Auto-Free Times: Spring ’97 – Fall ’01 Bank Check Quarterly: 09/90 – 06/97 [...]

It’s clear that The Stranger editor Dan Savage has been drooling over the opportunity to guest-blog over at AndrewSullivan.com, while the Sullinator is on vacation. Savage has been active, to put it mildly. But lotsa great stuff, both for Seattlites: Take, for example, the jackass sitting behind me as I type these words. He’s shouting [...]

The political season suddenly heats up, Peter Jennings passes, the Shuttle lands safely, and Hiroshima’s revisionist historians are put to bed. It’s all in Episode 207. Subscribe to the podcast, OR Click here to download the MP3.

GM makes a minivan for the Chinese market that gets 43 miles to the gallon in city driving and retails for $5000. As Bruno and I love to discuss, companies that take the long (i.e., environmentally-friendly) view into account will make money, while those that continue to operate under the robber baron paradigm will ultimately [...]

I read the Sunday NY Times last night, after a wonderful weekend of beauty and solitude in the Cascade Mountains, and got pretty depressed reading the international section. I guess that’s the way it is. So, of course, it’s always great to read that somewhere, somehow, progress is happening in the world, and that science [...]

Here’s some refreshing news: after Paul Hackett’s oh-so-close race against Jean Schmitt in Ohio’s 2nd District, more Iraq and Afghanistan vets are running for congress. And get this: they’re all running as Democrats. Money quote from 24-year-old Navy Vet Eric Massa, who’s running in New York’s 29th District: I am running for Congress as a [...]