Liberal Talk Radio

I’m always loathe to blame the victim in these sort of things, but what the hell are you doing walking around Loyal Heights at 2 in the morning?!
It’s not a bad neighborhood, at all, just a really random place to be on foot.

Matt Yglesias’ column today on Bill Richardson makes some great points: Richardson is absurdly qualified to be President, not just for his experience but also because he’s electable, at least in the way we used to define it.
Yglesias pivots off this to offer the theory that Richardson’s candidacy is doomed because we’re moving from the [...]

You know you’ve been out of the loop when …
You wake up on a Tuesday and realize that it’s actually Fat Tuesday. (Or, as we non-Latin Catholics like to put it “Shrove Tuesday”).
So let’s give a holla for the little Polish treat that puts the “fat” in Fat Tuesday: paczki. (Pronounced sort of like [...]

Also, what was the brand of television? I sense an ad campaign coming on:
After the discovery of the mummified body of an elderly man who died a year ago while watching television, Long Island officials are even more stunned to learn the TV was still on.
Vicenzo Riccardi, 70, apparently died of natural causes about [...]

Two interesting NYT pieces on Iraqi oil over the weekend.
First up, a deal is in the works to distribute oil revenue. This has been a major sticking point, with the Kurds wanting the ability to negotiate independently with oil contractors. Apparently a deal has been made:
But a senior official in [...]

Ezekiel Emanuel and Victor Fuchs have an article up in The New Republic arguing for a system of health care vouchers to replace the health care system.
They want to fund the system primarily by repealing the tax-deduction that employers get for providing coverage to their employees. They also propose a VAT (value-added tax) [...]

On the surface, it appears that Washington State residents renewed their membership in the “leave us alone coalition,” according to a new Elway poll. Solid majorities in the state support same-sex domestic partnership rights, no public financing for sports arenas, and no downtown Seattle tunnel.
At first glance, tat looks like a straight up-or-down libertarian [...]

Detroit Free Press reports today that Daimler-Chrysler is in negotiations to sell its troubled Chrysler unit to General Motors.
I fully understand why Daimler wants to get rid of the albatross that Chrysler’s become … basically, Chrysler’s profits over the past few years have depended heavily on sales of pickups, minivans, and other gas-guzzling relics of [...]

Gotta check this out.
Envision a Seattle girdled in $3 billion worth of industrial-grade steel.
What, you don’t like that?  Then figure out a better way to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
(Thanks, Goldy. Nice work.)