Liberal Talk Radio

Well, folks… you may not have known this, but the Prof and I were this close to having our two teams, the Mets and the Tigers, face off in the World Series. Alas, the Tigers held up their end of the bargain, but the Mets sucked it up big time tonight, stranding more men on [...]

Eli Sanders points us to a good-news-bad-news Survey USA poll on the Reichert-Burner race, a statistical tie at 50-47, respectively. Interesting nugget: Most Demographic groups are stable. But two are worth noting: Among Independent voters, Reichert had led by 5, now trails by 10, a 15-point swing. Among affluent voters, Burner had led by 4, [...]

How do we know fall is upon us? Women of all ages are busy figuring out what Sexy-[blank] costume to wear: In her thigh-highs and ruby miniskirt, Little Red Riding Hood does not appear to be en route to her grandmother’s house. And Goldilocks, in a snug bodice and platform heels, gives the impression she [...]

Amit Paley’s piece in the Post on a funeral for an American soldier in Iraq is worth reading. His commanders gave Airman 1st Class LeeBernard E. Chavis the proud emblem of their squadron — a blue-and-yellow flag known as a guidon — because they knew he would rather die than lose it. The 21-year-old District [...]

By the way, that Arizona race I wrote about the other day has tightened considerably according to some polls.

Some citizens of the fattest country in Europe are rebelling against healthier school lunches: Five months after the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver succeeded in cajoling, threatening and shaming the British government into banning junk food from its school cafeterias, many schools are learning that you can lead a child to a healthy lunch, but you [...]

Bruno, to your post on Bush’s (apparent) intention to weaponize space … Ha! Not only “Commander Cody in Space,” but, possibly, the abrogation of yet another treaty by Bush. The “Outer Space Treaty,” drafted in 1967 by the US, Soviets, and others, is generally interpreted as forbidding any efforts to militarize  space. From Wiki: The [...]

At least one other blog has noted Rick Santorum’s comments that our Iraq policy has been a success because “As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else.” Senator, I’m as big a fan of the tortured metaphor as the next guy, but I also did my [...]

When I saw this headline I was convinced that the Seattle Times had inked a content-sharing deal with The Onion. Sadly, no.

Sheesh. The trading day isn’t even over and the headlines are screaming “Dow Hits 12,000.” My favorite headline is from the Grey Lady, which has the (apparently non-ironic) decency to mention that it’s fundamental economic WEAKNESS causing the surge in the DJIA: A drop in consumer prices and a report showing further signs of weakness [...]