Liberal Talk Radio

If we’re going to have the clean, fossil-fuel-free future that everyone keeps promising us, we’re going to need cheap electricity, and lots of it. And we’re going to need to get that electricity from something other than coal. Our options include:
1. Nuclear
2. Hydroelectric dams
3. Wind
4. Solar
Biofuels like ethanol will be great for powering [...]

The one real perk that made its employees want to commute miles away to far-flung airports, breathe stale recirculated air and smile like idiots for customers who are never really happy about being there in the first place is suddenly harder to come by, which says something interesting about the state of the economy:
Through deep [...]

Anyone seen these ads for Southern Comfort on TV lately? Voiceovers of hip folks at bars ordering a SoCo & lime. Like most people, I’ve had too many bad experiences with SoCo. But I have managed to put down a SoCo and lime from time to time.
What’s funny about the ad is [...]

Michael Crowley talks nukes:
On a more serious note, it’s starting to look as though the Yucca Mountain project, already years behind schedule, may never get off the ground. With the spike in oil prices breathing new life into the nuclear-energy movement, someone really needs to square this circle.
Indeed. Despite The West Wing’s anti-nuke plot [...]

I just had a funny thought after finishing mixing tonight’s episode on Russ Feingold: What if Feingold ended up facing John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election. McCain vs. Feingold. How would they finance their campaigns?
Seriously: you’ve got the two co-authors of the most seminal piece of campaign finance reform legislation squaring [...]

I’ve made some subtle changes to the blog recently to make it easier to listen to the podcast. the first you’ll notice is on the right-hand sidebar, there’s now a “Listen Now” button and the summary of the most recent episode.
I’ve also installed the free version of PupuPlayer, which allows you to listen to [...]

The news that Iran and the US are going to meet to discuss Iraq of all things seems strange on its face but lends credence to the idea that there was a geopolitcal strategy behind invading Iraq, right?
About that post title . . .

A great counter-intuitive — dare I say contrarian — take on Wal-Mart’s failed foray into banking:
Imagine that Wal-Mart announced it was going to open a new kind of store, one that would have all the benefits of the chain’s low prices without a lot of the collateral damage.
Shoppers who went to this store would save [...]

On the heels of Bruno’s noticing how wrong pundits got the invasion of Iraq comes David Brooks’ column today on how the pundits actually got it all right (dastardly Time$ $elect!). Go figure:
Some weeks nothing happens; some weeks change history. The week of March 24, 2003, was one of those pivotal weeks. U.S. troops had [...]