Liberal Talk Radio

Or maybe “cumming” would be better … [pause for laugh] Another Republican Member resigns in scandal, this time over emails to a 16 y.o. (male) page: Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former male page. ”I am deeply sorry and [...]

Okay, Mr. Contrarian.  Yes, the war is effectively “won” (won like we won Vietnam).  And, yes, the Dems are everywhere on the ascendent … although I’ll believe it when I see it [and, frankly, the likely victory in November will only mask the serious rot in the party's roots -- much like Steve Marucci's 49ers, it's a talented [...]

Professor — regarding the glove-offing, I respectfully submit that I think vitriol is so 2004. Now that the war is over (to take Phil Ochs out of context — since both pro- and anti-war people are working to figure out the best way to bring the troops home, for all intents and purposes the war [...]

As a respectable journal of political thought, this blog is probably no place for the wild, unsubstantiated vitriol I’m about to spit in the general direction of our Piss-Poor Tin-Pot Despot, aka President of the United States George W. Bush.  But it’s Friday, I’m slightly hung over, and my recent posts have all been far [...]

This is a questionable strategy: “I don’t think that there’s anyone who grew up around the South that hasn’t had the word pass through their lips at one time in their life,” he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Tuesday. “If you read ‘Fields of Fire,’ that word and a lot of other words are in [...]

The New Jersey Senate race is critical to Democrats as they hope to take control of the Senate. So what is Robert Menendez doing? Campaigning in South Florida, of course, courting Republicans: He shook hands with supporters at Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho in Little Havana. He was given the keys to the affluent city [...]

After international officials outlawed the export of wild caviar from the Caspian and Black Seas, the market has turned to farmed fish, and I have to say, the whole business comes off as slightly perverse*: In the mid-1990′s the farmed caviar industry was nothing more than a few marine biologists with a dream. Today it [...]

I have to admit that I’ve passed by Citgo stations on the few times recently when we’ve either rented or borrowed cars**. Apparently 7-Eleven has noticed: Convenience store operator 7-Eleven Inc. is dropping Venezuela-backed Citgo as its gasoline supplier at more than 2,100 locations and switching to its own brand of fuel. The retailer said [...]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent trip to New York, as seen through his in-country translator: On Tuesday, Sept. 19, the day of his now-famous speech, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad entered the General Assembly at the United Nations and sat down with his foreign minister and the Iranian U.N. ambassador. He waved in my direction, and I waved [...]

“02138″ doesn’t even have a ring to it: Hundreds of “bright young things” and some of their older counterparts last night raised their glasses in honor of a new magazine celebrating Harvard University — America’s pre-presidential playground, a cocoon for future billionaires, and the crown jewel of the Ivy League. Guests sipped pomegranate martinis and [...]