Liberal Talk Radio

I’m going to come out and say it — America is starting to remind me of Britain in the ’70s (or, what I’ve read of it, anyway). Your country and mine currently features:
* A dysfunctional economy, characterized by almost schizophrenic swings in the stock market (stock market down 300 pts so [...]

Kid Rock’s sister finally gets an age-appropriate role. But I still don’t understand what she has against being 30:
Jill Ritchie is finally acting her age. After years of portraying younger characters, the 33-year-old actress is among her peers in VH1’s new half-hour comedy “I Hate My 30’s.”
“I have to say it felt really [...]

Dealing with the effects of globalization will be a catch-all for the Dems’ legislative agenda, according to Pelosi:
That’s what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told bloggers this morning Congressional Democrats are calling their set of economic proposals on everything from the minimum wage to increasing access to higher education, from affordable housing to developing “green collar” [...]

John Conyers is increasingly interested in talking impeachment:
On Friday John Conyers appeared at an event in San Diego. While speaking there he said that he would support the introduction of articles of impeachment if three additional members of Congress ask him to do so. (He seemed to say he meant in addition to the 13 [...]

As I’ve mentioned, health care has been on my mind a lot lately, and not just because I saw Sicko.
My mom and I had a long conversation last night, and it’s got me pretty worried.
Here’s some full disclosure for you (with apologies to those of you who will think this is oversharing) — I’m going [...]

This is what I get for sleeping in on Sunday and missing Meet the Press. Apparently Russ Feingold appeared to announce a new resolution to censure the president, hot on the heels of this week’s podcast where we discuss the case for impeachment.
The problem with the censure resolution is that it’s too early. [...]

Brendan Kiley has an engaging feature on Seattle Center in this week’s Stranger. There are four options on the table for how to modernize the place, and Kiley is advocating for the fourth, Plan 4, which would go the farthest in turning the Center into more of a park (the Times has a video [...]

It’s awful convenient how this works, isn’t it?

Republicans, in an effort to enrich America’s investor class, cut top marginal tax rates for 30 years
America becomes unable to fund upgrades to its highways
The investor class then funds the election of George W. Bush, who goes on to demonstrate just how incompetently the government can be run
The [...]

This is what you get to do if you’re a chemist in the Big Easy:
You need wormwood to make real absinthe, but the herb is a tricky one to work with — one of its key compounds, thujone, has long been considered the cause of the drink’s supposed side effects: hallucinations, artistic inspiration, degeneracy and [...]