Liberal Talk Radio

. . . this should succeed: High beer prices are on tap, and global warming could be to blame. The environmental crisis has hit suds-lovers where it hurts most — at the bar and in the wallet — as prices of grains and hops soar, activists said yesterday. “When we’re trying to deal with young [...]

If you’ve ever wondered whether television’s rudimentary identity concealing measures actually worked, here’s a story for you: A Manhattan hooker interviewed by Diane Sawyer for an ABC special on prostitution was busted by her mom — who recognized her daughter, despite the network’s efforts to disguise her. “I’m mentioning the interview now because last night, [...]

Because I’m loving the 50 State Strategy this year, and because I think this encapsulates what I think of Democrats hunkering down and trying to hold their safe states and seats*: I don’t want to get any messages saying that “we are holding our position.” We’re not holding anything. Let the Republicans do that. We [...]

This video of Charlie Rose done in the style of Samuel Beckett is a work of staggering genius: (via)

The prof reports back from Austin, the Democrats campaign in Pennsylvania, and finally: the Pope, Italy, and the weak dollar. Links Mentioned: The L.A. Times covers street money.

I recommend reading James Fallows and Josh Marshall on the ridiculousness of the ABC Democratic Debate tuesday night. Of course, the debate was watched by some 10 million people, the most of any debate thusfar. No doubt ABC will offer this statistic as “proof” that the questions were valid, conveniently ignoring the fact that people [...]

Reading the arguments against building a suicide barrier on the Aurora bridge, I’m struck by just how little people take into account the public health issues at stake. People can be very callous about the jumpers (“If we build a barrier, they’ll just go jump somewhere else!”), but they’re almost totally ignorant of the effect [...]

I’ve been pretty amazed at the percentage of people who think the country is on the “wrong track,” which has reached 70% or more in recent polls. But maybe that’s not such an “amazing” concept at all. Mori Dinauer at TAPPED cites this Washington Post/ABC News poll‘s “astounding” finding that 90% of people have a [...]

I’m glad to see that Bush has put out a weak-ass climate change proposal. It means that the Bush, Cheney, and the polluters who bankroll them are concerned enough about the chances of real climate change legislation coming out of the Senate that they feel the need to try to pre-emptively kneecap it.

The Spitzer legacy just gets better and better: Employees of a California law firm whose donations were spurned on ethical grounds and then re-solicited by the campaign of Eliot Spitzer are fuming over what they say is the former governor’s hypocrisy and his campaign’s vague answers about whether and when they might get their money [...]