Liberal Talk Radio

Big Corn may be approaching its saturation point: Bush may have trouble matching proposals made by Democratic lawmakers and farm-state Republicans. Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Barack Obama (D-Ill.), Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) and Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) have proposed raising to 60 billion gallons a year the amount of ethanol [...]

Namely, that de facto partition of Iraq is the most likely outcome. Scenario two: De facto partition Probability – High Unsurprisingly, this scenario is considered to be the most likely and has been accorded a high probability. The sectarian and factional issues witnessed in 2006 are powerful and highly stable, suggesting more of the same [...]

Good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this is totally rad: The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes. Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing [...]

A’ight.  This damn horse is so freaking dead that subsequent beatings produce not so much as a trickle of new blood.  Still, I can’t resist (yet another) chance to get in a dig against Bush and his damnable invasion. According to ABC, Iraqi insurgents were caught planning an attack on the U.S.: Mimicking the hijackers [...]

News in today’s Free Press that a coalition of governments in suburban Detroit are working with Amtrak to develop a communter line running from Ann Arbor to Detroit (arguably Michigan’s most congested highway route). The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments … along with local officials in Wayne and Washtenaw counties, is working with Amtrak to [...]

An internal crack-up in Iran, the politics of climate change here at home, and finally, Seattle voters get to vote in yet another useless election.

Did I just hear the Buzzcocks’ “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” on an AARP ad? Why yes I did: Now approaching 50 itself, AARP is heading off a midlife crisis with a new TV ad that celebrates the aging process to the strains of the Buzzcocks’ classic punk song “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays.” The image overhaul, aimed in [...]

Couldn’t resist the attempt to transcribe Howard Cosell into a phonetic form … After all, the U.S. is rolling up its sleeves and striding back into the squared circle that is the Space Race to take on the young comer, China. Funny.  IMO, the only visionary contribution Bush has made during his regnum imperium has [...]

While we were debating various transportation “solutions,” Sound Transit has been furiously pouring concrete. Witness the Link Light Rail maintenance facility, looking damn near complete. Though I was a big supporter of the Monorail Project, I always thought that the biggest argument against it was that we would have to build TWO of these buildings, [...]

So, tell me. If you were sitting in W.’s chair trying to figure out what to do about Iran’s nuclear program, what would you be thinking about (and, no, you can’t say “my next vacation to Texas” … you’re not W., so you treat matters of great importance with appropriate dignity). Here’s one to contemplate [...]