Liberal Talk Radio

Bruno and the Prof take on Hollywood and the Oscars, Iraqi oil revenue, and health care.

David Broder continues to swoon for “Unity08,” yet another attempt at a third party that stakes out the political “center,” as it is imagined by the Washington elite (and virtually no one else). I’m not much interested in this sort of imagined comity, but there is noteworthy component of Unity08′s design: the internet nominating convention. [...]

if you give one half a whit about what happens to Seattle’s downtown waterfront, take a minute to read This SF Chronicle article on the Embarcadero freeway from 2004. Yes, the parallels are inexact, but it’s still an amazing story of what could be: The Embarcadero Freeway pushed north along the waterfront for nearly a [...]

It’s been a bad week for Wikipedia, folks. First, Middlebury college’s history department bans the collaborative encyclopedia after several students get the same question wrong on a history quiz (all got their info from Wikipedia). Then, Andy Schafly, son of conservative gadfly Phyllis, launches Conservapedia, which is just like Wikipedia, except without all the liberal [...]

Michael Hirsh has a must-read Newsweek article on the Petraeus plan for Iraq. The upshot? It’s going to be a long haul. But it’s not just about the troop increase: To a degree little understood by the U.S. public, Petraeus is engaged in a giant “do-over.” It is a near-reversal of the approach taken by [...]

Following up on the Prof’s earlier post on DC’s planned Tyson’s Corner Metro extension, the WaPo has an article on a 19-year-old blogger and Christian Missionary-in-training who’s pushing for a tunnel at Tyson’s: Mast acknowledges that his advocacy of a potentially more costly transit option might be seen as at odds with his strong conservative [...]

. . . but the only thing better would be if it was drawn by R. Crumb: Among the unlikely superheroes to be introduced tomorrow at a comic book convention at the Javits Convention Center are a skateboarding cyborg who battles terrorism, three cutesy girls from the intergalactic military police and one high school student [...]

Lest you think I’m on the Richardson payroll, let me highlight some annoying pandering from the New Mexico governor: In brief remarks to about 300 Democrats who gathered at a local newspaper’s conference room to watch the presidential candidates forum aired live on C-SPAN, Richardson touched on several key Nevada issues, saying he’s opposed to [...]

It’s a start: Plenty of businesses all over the Puget Sound region have been selling biodiesel for years, and Seattle has long been an early leader in its use. But Safeway’s entrance into the market marks the first time such a prominent chain has taken the plunge into alternative fuels, another indication that the demand [...]

Friends of Seattle is taking the Viaduct fight to the next level: “Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?!” Good for them.