Liberal Talk Radio

Shorter William Safire predictions without that silly multiple choice convention (speaking of which, would it kill him to tell us in advance that “none of the above” or “all of the above” are options? Sheesh!):

U.S. troops in Iraq at 2006 year’s end will number 80,000 or below.
Speaker of the House succeeding Dennis Hastert will be [...]

Just when you thought things might be going well in Iraq, you read this
Kurds quietly ready for civil war
By Tom Lasseter
Knight Ridder Newspapers
KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraq’s Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city [...]

Forget savings bonds or a crisp twenty, whatever happened to the Xbox? Increasingly, people are giving plastic surgery as holiday — sorry, Bill — Christmas gifts:
Last year Helena Rasin’s grandmother gave her $200 for Christmas. This year her grandmother gave her a new nose.
“A nose job is the best Christmas present ever because you’ll have [...]

21st-Century Schadenfreude…
1. Alaska Air passenger photos and blogs his experience on Flight 536
2. Anonymous commenters leave nasty comments on said blog.
3. Passenger/blogger tracks the IP address of the offensive comments, and finds they originated from the offices of, yes, Alaska Airlines.
D’oh!

Although the NYC Transit Workers may have done their best to show the worst side of union labor, from clear across the country comes a story that shows just how important unionized workers are:
Alaska Airlines Flight 536 was 20 minutes out of Seattle and heading for Burbank, Calif., Monday afternoon when a thunderous blast rocked [...]

Over the holidays, I tend to spend the wee hours of the morning voraciously consuming my parents’ 400 channels of digital cable, a trend that will only accelerate when my Dad inevitably buys a Plasma TV and home theater setup.
After 7 years of catching bits and pieces of Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential during [...]

Dreidel, that silly game of chance, is even more fun as a drinking game in which the following rules* apply:

Set firm alcohol limits; we cannot stress this enough — one bottle of beer for every person participating is a good guideline.
Each player is given a small shot glass to be filled with beer. (Manischewitz would [...]

Via Slog, I see that Kevin Fullerton of The Sierra Club has jumped on the build-nothing option for the crumbling Alaskan Way Viaduct. The Professor and I disagree on this, and to be sure, there are still many questions to be answered. Personally, I just don’t see the need for TWO freeways cutting [...]

What are the odds that this is a former meth lab?
This home is on the property we own and would like to have it hauled away. Dont know anything about it… Broken windows, trashed… ETC…
May be used for parts or storage?? MUST TAKE THE WHOLE THING!!!
Has tow tongue still intact, dont know about [...]

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Movie Review division recently gave Brokeback Mountain a damning “morally offensive” rating. The review noted that while the movie makers treat the controversial subject matter (”which a Catholic audience will find contrary to its moral principles”) with “discretion,” the USCCB could not abide their “[t]acit approval of same-sex [...]