Liberal Talk Radio

David Axelrod is, I repeat, the master of momentum. Obama’s down by just 2 in Ohio with four days to go. Prediction? It’ll be dead even within 48 hours, and Obama will pull ahead the day before the election.

You mean this is the worst you can come up with? There must be some sort of Bush-opinion-columnator that automatically generates this stuff: The Bush administration has tried repeatedly to kill or shortchange government surveys. Motivated in part by pound foolishness, but also by a disdain for information that might upset partisan or ideological agendas, [...]

With the exception of a recent case on Tuesday, murders are down in Newark: It had been 43 days without a killing in Newark: no late-night calls to rush to homicide scenes in hopes of finding witnesses before they disappeared, no new crush of paperwork. After a year that tested the squad of 11 investigators [...]

One hallmark of a developed country is a responsive government that can identify a social problem and take steps to correct it: Whatever their reason might be, a passing hearse or simple discomfort, Italy’s highest court ruled that men may not touch their genitals in public. The ruling settled an appeal by a 42-year-old worker [...]

But if I were Obama Girl, I might say that we should split the difference between Louis Farrakhan and David Duke and call it a day.

Further proof that Eric Clapton definitely has blood on his hands: Rock icon Eric Clapton has been invited to play a concert in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, an official at the country’s UK embassy has confirmed. If he accepts, the 62-year-old will become the first Western rock star to perform in the Communist country. [...]

The Prof, in print: The irony is that for most of the, oh, let’s say 72,000 years we’ve been human, close contact like this has been much more normal than our modern conceit of “personal space.” In fact, we’re supposed to be highly tuned to live in groups of 50 to 150 people. The Right [...]

The Times may have blown it by spending so much time pussy-footing around with the infidelity innuendo–the real story is the lobbyist entanglements McCain has apparently decided to lie about. Because of the shoddy sex scandal lens through which the Times has focused, McCain may not have to account for himself. Still and all, I’m [...]

Power shifts in Pakistan, Cuba and Kosovo. Plus, continued coverage of the Presidential primaries. Links Mentioned: The Pakistani elections … Kosovo declares independence … Doctrines … Richardson and Clinton kick back

Huckabee was funny but . . . self-referential humor is not really Presidential . . . or even Vice Presidential. And I say this as someone who is into that kind of thing. (Yeah, Adaptation was great. No, wait — brilliant.) And, hey, Tina Fey — it’s over for Hillary. Get the fuck over it. [...]