Liberal Talk Radio

The man has some ego, doesn’t he? In the fall, Gingrich might decide to jump in, depending on how the Republican candidates are faring against Clinton, the New York senator. “If there is a vacuum and if there’s a real need for somebody to be prepared to debate Senator Clinton, then I would consider running. [...]

Even though the Iraq War is over, there’s an interesting op-ed in today’s Times* that will surprise you and which should do absolutely nothing to stanch Bruno’s still-surging Petrae-crush (and the Professor’s, for that matter). *Kenneth Pollack’s a funny case, too, having had written one of the most coherent, persuasive arguments in favor of invading [...]

But as Times critic Kelefa Sanneh points out, there’s a great plug for due process somewhere in there: Zack De La Rocha is the lead rapper and agitator and sermonizer of Rage Against the Machine, but on Saturday night at Randalls Island he barely talked between songs. Then, near the end of the set, came [...]

Alberto Gonzales versus the U.S. Senate, we begin to make the case for universal health care, and finally: the YouTube debates. Clinton and Obama square off. Links mentioned: Background on Gonzales’ testimony … The YouTube debates.

Josh Feit has a great post on how the current crop of Seattle School Board candidates are forging new ideas on race and integration after this year’s Supreme Court decision.

Though I’m pretty sure folks like Bruno have checked most of these things off, the Stockton Record suggests 30 things you should do by the time you turn 30: Sadly, most people don’t fully realize the freedom their 20s hold. They don’t understand that these years might well be their last chance to experience all [...]

Several sources are reporting that the GOP frontrunners are bailing on the YouTube debate format. Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews tracked down the GOP candidates in order to ask for their rationale. In case you missed it, Rudy was saying “9/11! 9/11!” Sort of fits with the theme, doesn’t it?

George W. Bush has successfully managed to alienate an entire generation from the Republican Party. And we know that most people tend to keep their party affiliations for their lifetime. FDR Democrats stayed democrats just as Eisenhower’s Republicans stayed Republicans. Surely, in the face of such bad youth relations, you’d think the GOP candidates would [...]

It’s hard to believe that the Home Shopping Network is turning 30 this month: HSN launches its first national network TV campaign in five years today to woo channel flippers to park for a peek at the network’s new look during its 30th anniversary. “Thirty years is an important milestone to celebrate the business that [...]

We’re one step closer to robotic limbs: …to actually control the hand, the researchers relied on neural activity recorded from a monkey’s brain. According to MIT’s Technology Review, that resulted in the fingers on the hand performing their intended movement about 95 percent of the time. While the system doesn’t currently work in real time, [...]