Liberal Talk Radio

I love pears as much as the next guy, but there’s something fishy here — you mean to tell us that farmers exist completely outside any market forces? I don’t quite buy it: The pear growers here in Lake County waited decades for a crop of shapely fruit like the one that adorned their orchards [...]

Where do progressive politics, transit policy, and Canadian rock music come together? The Lionel-Industrial Complex, that’s where: All week, a man with a microphone has walked the subway platforms to collect the clattering of the rivets and the whistling horns, the distortion in the loudspeaker, the hush in the compressor’s song and the dying of [...]

As much as I love The Daily Show (a million thanks to the geniuses at Comedy Central who decided to re-run TDS and Colbert at 8 and 8:30am, btw!), I have to admit I go days, sometimes weeks, without laughing out loud at it. However, last night’s bit on the UN was effing hilarious. Stewart’s [...]

Boy big pharmaceutical companies really screw the working class, don’t they? With their high cost of drugs, they making hard for the average American to afford ‘em! If only a smart American company — one with a lot of purchasing power, preferably — could put the screws to Big Pharma, you know? Get them to [...]

This is a fun piece of contrarian wisdom by Jake Weisberg in Slate. I don’t really take issue with his conclusions, but take issue with a bit of his evidence: And there is one final argument that scotches any theory that Democrats should be glad to fall short in November: The party has now gone [...]

First House Democrats do the sensible and obvious thing by slapping down Chavez, and even Charlie Rangel defends Bush against the Venezulean leader: George Bush is the President of the United States and represents the entire country. Any demeaning public attack against him is viewed by Republicans and Democrats, and all Americans, as an attack [...]

I feel like someone should start replying to Bush’s comments with schoolyard stuff like “I’m the rubber, you’re the glue … “.  Anyway, he’s starting to hit like a playground nancyboy. President George W. Bush charged on Thursday that Democrats would raise taxes if put in control of the U.S. Congress, turning to a familiar [...]

I got a chance to see The Last King of Scotland the other day (it opens sometime next week) and although I shouldn’t be guessing Oscar stuff — especially this early and especially because I usually suck at it — you can’t help but think that Forest Whitaker will win for his depiction of Ugandan [...]

I’d read speculation that this was going to happen, and here it is: The Bush administration yesterday laid out a long-term “strategic plan” for using technology to curb the impact of global warming, reiterating its position that basic scientific research and voluntary actions can curb greenhouse gases linked to climate change. Ah yes, research and [...]

Reading about Chavez’s speech at the UN, I’m reminded of this little ditty that made the rounds following Bush’s coining of the “Axis of Evil.” Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the “Axis of Evil,” Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the “Axis of Just as Evil,” which they said would [...]