Liberal Talk Radio

How’s that epigraph go? “Nothing in his life so befit him as the leaving of it.” Well, nothing in the Seattle Monorail’s 7-year run was as quick and efficient as the rapid sell-off of lands that were to be used as stations for the now-defunct project. By selling the properties for $11M more than they [...]

Why would McCain’s chief of staff take the time to rip on those ingrates at the New School? It’s simple: cheap and easy political points at no cost to him! Everyone knows 20-somethings don’t vote!

John McCain shows us how it’s done. First, snag a New York Daily News headline of “McCain sez ‘I don’t’ to backing constitutional ban on gay nups”: The Republican with the loudest presidential buzz says he won’t back a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, despite its importance to conservative GOP primary voters. Arizona Sen. John [...]

AOL Instant Messenger has been around for what, 5, 10 years? So it’s fascinating that MySpace has more active users: The most notable of the newcomers is AOL’s AIM Pages, which is building upon its already substantial instant-messaging base of 49 million active users worldwide. Still, MySpace’s number is higher — the active subset of [...]

A special edition of Bruno and the Professor: we’re talking with Jim and Tony of Saint Kermit about the Massachusetts Governor’s primary, which may have implications nationwide.

I’ve actually never heard of the Air Force Thunderbirds before today, but I have to assume that they have a mighty inferiority complex vis-a-vis the Navy’s Blue Angels. Maybe that explains why the Thunderbirds needed a $50M taxpayer-financed PR campaign. Keep in mind that these planes are themselves one big PR campaign, designed to fly [...]

The U.S. Government loves cheap Chinese imports, don’t they? After all, isn’t that why we normalized trade relations with China and opened up our markets to their wonderful goods? Well, looks like this free market global paradise isn’t quite all it’s cracked up to be. The State Department went and bought some 16,000 Chinese Lenovo [...]

I have no idea how significant this actually is, but watching Gen. Hayden’s confirmation hearings this morning, I did notice this exchange, which Think Progress also seemed to think was significant. Hayden, in no uncertain terms, tells Sen. Levin that he was not comfortable with the way the neocons in the Dept. of Defense set [...]

Speaking at the graduation ceremony of my alma matter, Jodie Foster apparently took the time to rock some Eminem. Merry Swankster has the clip.

I admit I didn’t catch the president’s address on immigration reform tonight. I’m home in New York hanging with the folks, and I had far more important matters to attend to (like watching The Hunt for Red October on Dad’s new 50-inch plasma TV). However, reading the blogger round-up, I have to say I love [...]