Liberal Talk Radio

Man, if military expenditures alone don’t push the cost of this Iraq fiasco over $1 trillion, then all the ensuing lawsuits certainly will.

Error with Episode 275. Stupid internets. Anyway, it should be re-posted now. (Thanks to reader HH for the tip)

President Bush asks for an extension to finish his term paper entitled, “What to do next in Iraq.” Time Magazine names their Person of the Year. And finally, we discover the true meaning of the “War on Christmas.”

Less than a month after announcing his plans to seek the Presidency, Evan Bayh drops out. Here’s a guy who’s been rumored as a Presidential candidate for what, 20 years? And within a month, he’s in and out. Weird. In other ’08 news, Edwards is officially in. It’s interesting that he didn’t wait for Kerry [...]

I just upgraded my laptop to a MacBook, and thus, the global headquarters of Bruno and the Prof has received a giant infrastructure upgrade. In the process of downloading all the new drivers, I came across this questionnaire on the site: The first and fourth questions sound particularly intriguing. The idea of collaborating online with [...]

I’m watching MSNBC this morning and they’ve got a piece on the windstorm that wracked the Pacific NW this week. Here’s the weird thing: the reporter kept telling us that she was standing in the middle of Sammamish County, in the heart of the storm damage. They even popped up a little graphic showing us [...]

Paralyzed by the fear of making a decision, the Guv kicks the can down the road: Gov. Christine Gregoire this morning called for a public vote on the Alaskan Way Viaduct to break the political stalemate between an affordable elevated structure and a tunnel that is still financially shaky. The vote should occur by April [...]

As a card-carrying member of the union of the whiny underemployed, I think we should try it*: In another sign that healthcare will return as a major issue when Democrats take over Congress next month, a prominent Democratic senator unveiled an ambitious proposal Wednesday to provide medical insurance for all Americans while reining in costs. [...]

If you exclude for the moment the concept of outsourcing education to “independent contractors” (whatever that means exactly . . .)*, this new report has some exciting new ideas for educational reform: Warning that Americans face a grave risk of losing their prosperity and high quality of life to better educated workers overseas, a panel [...]

Remember the last time the U.S. intervened in the Horn of Africa? Yeah, that didn’t work out so well. And keep in mind that in ’91, we went into Somalia with the best of intentions, and with a kinder, gentler kind of big-stick diplomacy. There’s trouble a-brewin’ in the Horn again. War looms between Ethiopa [...]