Liberal Talk Radio

John Kerry put his foot in it:
Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard and do your homework and you make an effort to be smart you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.
But thankfully he’s not waffling.
Let me make it crystal clear, as crystal clear as I [...]

I’m sympathetic to David Brooks’ Santorum position:
For there has been at least one constant in Washington over the past 12 years: almost every time a serious piece of antipoverty legislation surfaces in Congress, Rick Santorum is there playing a leadership role.
[snip many examples of antipoverty legislation and one "man on dog" non-apology]
The bottom line is [...]

Lede of the day:
The first rule of public health is one most of us learn in kindergarten: Don’t eat poop.

Bruno’s notes from Philadelphia (including a visit to the U.S. Constitution Center), an update on the Midterm Elections, and finally: while America navel-gaves, what’s going on in the rest of the world?

Follow up to the Contrarian’s piece on life-extending calorie-restricted diets.
In today’s NYT, there’s a bit about a study involving rhesus monkeys.
Check out the sample diets offered, one demonstrating a calorie restricted menu of 2000 calories, the other the “average” diet of 3000 calories. The diets were prepared by one Mike Linksvayer.
Now, I don’t know [...]

I was on vacation this weekend… we’ll have something up by the end of the day! Thanks for your patience.
In the meantime, read this awesome article from the April 2006 Popular Mechanics on the ridiculous toys in the U.S. Defense budget. Why are these toys ridiculous? C’mon, don’t make me [...]

A tourist came in from Orbitville, parked in the air and said,
“The creatures of this Democratic party resemble nothing so much as the European style parliamentary coalitions I studied in my ‘Modern European History and Government Class’ back at that elite East Galaxy university my parentals paid way too much money to send me [...]

Fascinating piece in the NYT about the growing (and apparently already widespread) use of hand sanitizer among politicians.
As you know, I’m a germ-o-phobe myself. Still, I hate hand sanitizer (and its evil cousin — the sanitizer spray they use at the gym). Why?
Purell and its ilk are anti-bacterial. That is, they only [...]

After reading Peggy Noonan’s latest*, I have two questions. One, is there anybody — save Karl Rove himself — who believes the Republicans will win this election? And two, won’t it be totally funny if they actually pull it out this time?
Vintage Nooner:
There remains a broad, reflexive, and very Republican kind of loyalty to George [...]

As I mentioned back-handedly in a post yesterday, I’ve long contended that most suicide bombers just need a good lay to get their minds off jihad. Apparently, the same idea is gaining traction elsewhere.
Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle profiled a provocative new film on [suicide bombers], which some might say isn’t sympathetic enough. “Suicide Killers,” [...]