Liberal Talk Radio

There’s a great exchange between Chris Matthews and The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza towards the end of this clip: Lizza has the audacity to suggest that it’s the journalist’s job not only to “report” on the “controversy,” regarding Obama’s pastor, but to actually inform viewers that these guys are actually different people. Lizza says, “If [...]

God, the people who work at Fox News are morons.

Apocalypse Tom owns a 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX, an all wheel drive pseudo sports car that goes faster than Tom reasonably needs to drive and allows him to go over Snoqualmie Pass in winter weather that keeps everyone except chained-up semis and Tom at home. The WRX has a 15.9 gallon gas tank, and requires [...]

Well, now the Republicans are definitely gonna win.

The Pennsylvania primary, syria’s nuclear program, soaring food prices and finally: the American tragedy that is the military-industrial complex. Links Mentioned: Israel and Syria take two steps forward, and one step back, Daniel Levy wonders why … the foibles of the littoral combat ship … Military generals sell out … Kaus on the Obama superdelegate [...]

Well, at least they’re talking again, even if it may not accomplish much: Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at People’s University in Beijing, said the Chinese government does not want the talks to be “interpreted as a concession under duress.” He predicted that any discussions would be unlikely to bring meaningful breakthroughs. “I [...]

It’s a cliche to talk about how undemocratic the U.S. Senate is, with it’s filibusters and non-proportional representation. But I think the recent cloture vote on the the Lilly Ledbetter Act highlights this fact pretty acutely, and is worth exploring a bit. To recap, the bill was: named for an Alabama woman who lost a [...]

Bush has nominated Gen. Petraeus to head the U.S. Central Command, replacing Admiral William Fallon. Fallon wasn’t too keen on the whole “bomb Iran” thing, so he got canned. But remember, Bush always listens to his “commanders on the ground!” Politics never enters the equation, of course!! And, of course, who could possibly be more [...]

Early returns from PA are in: Obama takes Philly, Hillary rocks it in squirrel-hunting country. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the continued political support of the “heartland” in terms of subsidies and trite mythologizing creates the seed for the kulturkampf and the root of everything that’s broken in modern America. (I [...]

Even Al Qaeda celebrates Earth Day: Al-Zawahri spoke on a wide range of topics in Tuesday’s message. . . . . . . Al-Zawahri even addressed global warming, saying it showed “how criminal, brutal and greedy the Western Crusader world is, with America at the top.” He predicted global warming would “would make the world [...]