Liberal Talk Radio

A mere five years after Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered Microsoft to split in two, Microsoft has decided to split itself into three. Well, sort of:
The changes separate the company into the new Platform Products & Services Division, to include Windows, server products and MSN; the Microsoft Business Division, including the company’s Office and [...]

Via Instapundit, I find Howard Kurtz on the role of the media:
He writes:
A Sept. 12 Washington Post story was headlined “Katrina Pushes Issues of Race and Poverty at Bush.” An equally apt headline would have been, “Katrina Pushes Issues of Race and Poverty at a Media Establishment That Has Largely Ignored Them.”
The media has been [...]

Some folks are reporting difficulties downloading Episode 213 in iTunes. Unsubscribing from the Podcast and then re-subscribing seems to do the trick. Don’t know why that’s happening. This is life on the bleeding edge, folks! Can you taste it??

So it looks like we may get a FIFTH chance to vote on the embattled Seattle Monorail. Yay.
According to the P-I, the following options are on the table:

- A West Seattle-to-downtown segment only, possibly saving up to $450 million.
- Shortening the line at both ends, with the West Seattle terminus at Alaska [...]

Disabled Americans are demanding medical marijuana. What’s next, state-subsidized prostitutes>?!
(via Kaus)

How many times we gonna vote on this thing?
Mayor Nickels asks the monorail board to submit to another public vote of confidence.

I think it’s clear by now that Tom DeLay et. al. have turned the Republican Party into a roving band of thugs, who rustle up and intimidate any opposition, dole out government contracts as gravy for party loyalty, discredit war heroes if they attempt to stand in the way, and install incompetent 3rd-rate political appointees [...]

I’d like to take a moment to say I’m thrilled to watch Michael Imperioli taking over for Jesse Martin on Law & Order. Martin is on hiatus while he films the movie version of Rent, which he starred in on broadway many moons ago. Imperioli, who plays Chrstopher on the Professor and my [...]

Last week I sent out a request for a few good podcasts. In the interim, I’ve been collecting some on my own. One of my favorites so far is More Hip Than Hippie, a couple of lovely ladies out of Northern California who talk of all things organic, earth-friendly, and sustainable, but served [...]