Liberal Talk Radio

I’m sympathetic to borrowers who took out loans they couldn’t afford to buy houses, not so much for the corporations that made them the loans in the first place.
However, I stop short of calling for special assistance for beleaguered borrowers. After all, I — and many other like me — behaved prudently, and did [...]

The Beige One’s post on Barry Bonds spurs me to write down some thoughts I’ve been having about Mr. 756.
To me, the performance enhancers are the least of it. He faced ‘roided pitchers, ‘roids weren’t even banned at the time, etc. And the differences in training and related technology make this [...]

This is what happens when you have a president who spends his days clearing brush and mountain biking. At least we know he’ll never suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, or any other disease one might get from working too hard at one’s job.

Josh “Sean Penn” Feit helps Al Qaeda plot their next move. It’s a doozy. I love it.

Has Google, that benevolent hegemon of the online world, jumped the shark with its new “comment” feature? The idea is that the primary sources involved in a news story that’s linked on Google News (say, the politician or scientist who was interviewed) will get the opportunity to comment directly and give “the full story.”
As much [...]

Contrarian, people are actually paying a lot more attention to the race this early than have been for the past few cycles. Now does that mean they’re “engaged’? I dunno…
But you’re right that Hillary’s running for the general election. She’s secure in her frontrunner status and so she’s not interested in tacking [...]

Even though I’m part of a high-profile political blogging machine, I have to say that I don’t care so much about the 2008 Presidential election right now. For me, that’s OK — I can be Contrarian like that.
Which is to say that as I don’t follow the race, I do happen to notice headlines on [...]

Bob Graham has a nifty idea for revamping the presidential primaries:
A series of five regional primaries, spaced three weeks apart and rotated every four years, would give voters from Miami to Maui to Manchester opportunities to be first in the nation. Candidates could spend more time with citizens of neighboring states and less time on [...]

Being beholden to a lender induces a state of servitude which in its extreme instances is exactly akin to outright enslavement.  Enslavement, whether by chain or by checkbook, is the opposite of liberty, the most American of values.  Thus have personages from Christ to Franklin proffered admonishments against indebtedness.
But Bush — and, under his watch, [...]

Apparently Mia Farrow is in Africa filming the sequel to Bernardo Bertolucci’s terrible adaptation of Paul Bowles’ book:
Mia Farrow has a daring plan to win the freedom of an ailing rebel leader from war-ravaged Darfur - she wants to take his place.
The activist actress offered to trade places with Suleiman Jamous, who needs a stomach [...]