Liberal Talk Radio

I’m sure that somewhere, someone is mourning the man and his failed dream of Greater Serbia. I should be more sanguine about the Yugoslav war. It turned out that the war was one of a string of events that showed the end of the Cold War to be a (duh) beginning. Back then, I thought [...]

One of Osama bin Laden’s 15 gazillion family members will have her own reality television show: Wafah Dufour bin Ladin, niece of Osama, wants to be a reality-TV star and has inked a deal with powerhouse publisher/TV producer Judith Regan for a show. Wafah, whose side of the family spells its surname with an “I,” [...]

Fear not, tapers, the MiniDisc lives… for now. Sony’s MiniDisc format seems destined to survive all attempts to relegate it to the disc shredder of history. And despite expectations that Sir Howard would do his best to finally kill the format, it looks like it’s going to make at least one more appearance, with the [...]

Geov Parrish exhorts us to build the tunnel. He ends with a somewhat surprising mea culpa: Fifteen years or so ago, I was opposed to then-Mayor Norm Rice’s corporate welfare schemes to revitalize the downtown retail district. I’m still leery of extravagant public gifts to private business, but on the question of investing in our [...]

There’s no question in my mind that it is a good thing that soda sales are falling for the first time in 20 years: For years, soda has been the quintessential American drink, considered the perfect thirst quencher, morning pick-me-up or accompaniment to lunch or dinner. But that is slowly changing. As Americans look for [...]

Atrios: So, yes, under Reagan the federal government shrunk by a wee bit and under Bush it’s grown by a bit more but the point is the Reagan era was not a magical age of tiny government and ponies. Hehe.

The funniest thing about Lazy Monday, the “west coast response” to SNL’s now-famous Lazy Monday, is that one of the guys in it in an actual actor, Mark Feuerstein, who you may recognize as the Republican lawyer who conducted the Congressional investigation into President’s Bartlet’s M.S. coverup, and later slept with Donna (funny, that). Took [...]

The Prof made the comment on this week’s show that “any three hippies” could derail a big project in Seattle. Well, I guess the same can be said about three yuppies. A Montlake-area group is trying to squash WSDOT’s SR 520 replacement project. At least this time, though, they’ve come armed with a proposal of [...]

The US likes to pride itself on the fact that we don’t ban websites. But if you’re a military serviceperson abroad, you’ve got to get through the Army’s internet filters. Which is probably for the best, since we wouldn’t want to make it easy for some soldiers to go off and make videos for a [...]

The President is resurrecting the line-item veto idea: As far back as the 1870s, with President Ulysses Grant, America’s chief executives have yearned for such a tool — that is, the right to strike out sections of bills they deem objectionable, usually those involving spending. Today, 43 of 50 governors enjoy that right, as part [...]