Liberal Talk Radio

Bruno watches the Enron movie and gets mad, President Hu comes to town and the protesters show up, the pros and cons of partisanship, and finally, Seattle gets a mass transit plan that might actually work.

The NRA helped make sure that guns confiscated in the wild days post-Katrina have been returned to their owners. Good! The murder rate in N’awlins had dropped down to zero for a while there, so this should help ratchet that number back up to normal, pre-Katrina levels. God bless the NRA.

This is really just a placeholder to a) remark that it’s odd that newspapers didn’t take the opportunity to use this delicious headline and b) invite the Professor to explain how and why the U.S. has so little leverage with China these days, seeing how (literally) indebted the U.S. economy is to China and how [...]

The Times reports that Fox News’ Tony Snow is in “serious negotiations” with the White House to be the Bush Administration’s new press secretary: . . . Republicans said that Tony Snow, a commentator for Fox News and a former speechwriter for Mr. Bush’s father, was in negotiations for the job of White House press [...]

“I’d rather be dead than Red.” Who’d of’ve thunk that in less than a generation that line would go from the mantra of gun-toting haters to the M.O. of America’s socialists?

I’ve been toying with an idea lately. Namely, that the Dems essentially serve the same function as a parliamentary coalition, while the Republicans are the party of the plurality. The basic idea is this. In serving as a “big tent” for a motley crew of environmentalists, labor unions, social activists, artists, and the poor, the [...]

Pope Urban VIII, er, rather the FDA, led the Republican charge back to the ’50s on this day with their spectacularly unsubstantiated pronouncement (as reported in the New York Times) that: “no sound scientific studies” supported the medical use of marijuana, contradicting a 1999 review by a panel of highly regarded scientists. Yet again politics [...]

Has anyone else noticed that cell phones don’t show up on TV with the same regularity that they do in the real world? It seems to be comedies, mostly. Dramas like The West Wing, Law and Order, and The Sopranos have fully integrated cell phones into their plots. But comedies lag way, way behind. I [...]

Looks like oil production in the Canadian tar sands is up and running. If you haven’t been following, the short version goes like this: Canada has enough oil locked in tar sands to dwarf Saudi Arabia’s massive reserves. The catch is that it’s expensive to extract and process. But with oil hovering at $70/barrel, “expensive” [...]

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