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I’ve been in not-so-sunny South Florida for the past few days attending a lovely wedding and generally slumming it without ‘net access. thanks to the Prof for posting a gem of an episode from the wayback vaults, and to the Contrarian for keeping us all on our class-warfare toes. Blogging right now from the Ft. [...]

As the market for high-end cocktails becomes more and more immune to economic downturns, the time is nigh for all-out class war. Meet the enemy: George Santiago, a 23-year-old nightclub promoter, wanted to impress Danielle DiCantz, 22, whom he had met at a club, on their first date. So on a recent Thursday night he [...]

Classic B and P. From December 1, 2003. America’s monumental swamp. Bluest voters I’ve ever seen are in Seattle. Bruno and the Prof get religion. The Governator comes to California. Episode225.mp3

Snarque Award for Best Takedown of the Week goes to . . . writer and former Peace Corps volunteer Paul Theroux in the Times op-ed page: There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at [...]

As kooky Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad resurrects the tried-and-true tactic of boosting lagging popularity by scapegoating Jews (“President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stepped up his anti-Israeli comments on Wednesday, calling the Holocaust a myth used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.”), thousands of miles away in New York, hundreds [...]

The polls are open. Godspeed.

With the brouhaha surrounding Senator McCain’s attempt to clarify American policy regarding treatment of detainees by requiring American personnel to follow the Army Field Manual practices on the treatment of prisoners, reasonable people wondered how an administration that is so vehemently opposed to McCain’s amendment might work around the overwhelming support for the amendment in [...]

This is not about Brokeback Mountain, and neither is it really about the opportunity to jump on the bandwagon in asking why the so-called mainstream media is ignoring what seems to be a legitimate case of death-row moral ambiguity — a man who was sentenced to death for killing a police officer after cops raided [...]

I’m not a huge fan of the tunnel option to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct here in downtown Seattle. personally I’d rather see it replaced with a six-lane boulevard at street level. I see no reason that we need to have TWO superhighways running through Downtown Seattle just seven city blocks apart. Plus, with the [...]

Apparently the vision of a high-speed transit corridor between San Francisco and San Diego is approaching reality. I had no idea they were this far along. This is an official environmental impact study (EIS) from an official government body, not some far-flung think tank fantasy. The line will run along the old Highway 99 corridor, [...]