Liberal Talk Radio

Great article on ways in which the airline industry is incredibly stupid.
I can only add that I, too, would be more than willing to pay a modest additional sum for some extra service and a few more inches of legroom.

If you didn’t catch Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint on Meet the Press this weekend, Bob Herbert gives a good summary of what’s in their book:
The most important step toward ending the tragic cycles of violence and poverty among African-Americans also happens to be the heaviest lift — reconnecting black fathers to their [...]

Somehow, even good news is bad news:
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that’s cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.
Let’s just [...]

Because he can write blog posts like this without flinching:
In the cultural weakness of whiteness (that it can only reproduce itself by itself and with no other) we might find one important source for the nation’s abnormally massive military budget. The problem of racial fragility is solved by warrior might. A race that does not [...]

Back before Bush’s blunder, I fondly remember a time when Congress pretended to make “policy”, and we citizens would sit ’round the campfire (or, a few candles in our living rooms) debating the merits of said policies.
These days it’s about all we can do to get a little attention for “business critical” things like health [...]

Merle Haggard, as quoted by Joe Klein:
“This is America. We’re proud. We’re not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We’re changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other’s dresses. Fear’s the only issue the Republican [...]

sigh
A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.
In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica daily he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men [...]

“It would be as though a US ally had invaded Mexico and inadvertently unleashed a Marxist peasant rebellion against San Diego.”
– Juan Cole, trying to explain how things look in Iraq from Turkey’s point of view.

Since Bruno won’t let me post anything inflammatory on OrphanRoad, I’ll have to go off on the Seattle Times here.  Their headline today: “Should You Trust Sound Transit?”
You’re all smart people, so I won’t bore you with a discussion of the semiotics of this statement (basically, by asking the question, it sets up a mental [...]