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Obama’s speech on race, the economic crisis on Wall Street and finally, a wrap-up of Thursday’s Friends of Seattle transportation forum. Links Mentioned: The roots of the financial crisis . . . Obama’s big speech.

A week or two ago, Contrarian got to heart of the ongoing feud between the Hillary Clinton campaign and comedian/former VP choice Sinbad. The conflict began when Sinbad contradicted Clinton’s story about desperate attempts to avoid sniper fire when flying into Tuzla, Bosnia to visit American troops. Contrarian asked: …what’s even worse about the Clinton [...]

Apparently the White House IT department is run by trained monkeys: WASHINGTON – Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its [...]

Matt Yglesias, on the fact of American Army and Marine Corps officers trying to rebuild Iraq: Suppose we replaced the mayor of your town with a twentysomething foreigner who didn’t speak English but did have a ton of firepower at his disposal and no real checks on his power. You’d probably feel that was a [...]

The West Blogosphere and Democrats are in an unbelievable tizzy about Obama’s race speech, trying to figure out what it all means and whether it’s good or bad for Obama, and good or bad for Democrats, and what was he thinking talking to voters like adults (thank you Jon Stewart, for calling it what it [...]

I meant to post something about the 5-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, but I got distracted by work. Anyway, I was going to post that ridiculous video of Bush searching under his desk for WMDs from the 2004 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but I could only find the really disturbing remixed [...]

I definitely heard AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue on Monday. This made me happy. So as college bands gear up for March Madness, the Times takes a look at the set list: Pep bands may provide the N.C.A.A. tournament’s greatest culture clash — giving a [...]

Following up on a topic we broached on this week’s podcast, a detailed look at why Boeing lost the contract, from McClatchy and the TNT: Thompson and others say Boeing’s commercial airplane division was too focused on the 787 to pay much attention to the tankers. “The tanker was not as high a priority for [...]

On this week’s podcast, the Prof and I talked ab it about Bear Sterns, but I don’t think either of us really saw the massive write-down that came this morning. Here, via Atrios, is a key distinction when it comes to bailouts: The Fed has no idea of which other primary dealers may be insolvent [...]

Ladies, learn from Dina Matos McGreevey’s experience — if your boyfriend wants a three-way with a man, it probably means he’s gay: A former driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday made the bombshell claim that Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay – because he was [...]