Liberal Talk Radio

Interesting piece in the NYT about the Saudis finally getting nervious and increasing oil production to lower prices. While you’d think that they would be happy with $140/barrel, the truth is that nefarious “alternative fuels” are becoming cost-competitive. They’re also planing on bringing a whole new field online next year. The question is, how do [...]

Meet the Press is a money-maker: Mr. Russert had led “Meet the Press,” the oldest continuous program on television, since 1991. Under Mr. Russert, “Meet the Press” had become a source of prestige for NBC as the premier place for newsmakers and political candidates to make their case to the nation. It also provided financial [...]

Bush in Europe, Permanent bases in Iraq, and finally, Tim Russert and future of the media-industrial complex.

Watching tonight’s rerun of the Daily Show reminded me of this, which reminded me what a douchebag David Brooks can be.

The Veterans Administration is an amazing health care system. They do a lot with a little. One reason: an elegant IT system using inexpensive open-source software. It’s too bad, then, that the Department of Defens is determined to shove an expensive, unworkable IT system from Northrop Grumman down their throats. God forbid one small aspect [...]

Following the Contrarian’s recommendations — nay, exhortations! — I watched Street Fight tonight. It’s a great film, highly recommended. One thing that struck me, watching the film, is the kind of person it takes to succeed in politics… and governance. We’re about to elect a sitting U.S. Senator to the White House for the first [...]

Jon Golob concludes his six-part investigation into nuclear power with a call for more research into next-generation reactors: Where are these plants? The ideas here aren’t new ones. A pilot project, the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) was to build a liquid sodium metal cooled, plutonium and U-235 fueled fast neutron reactor with an on-site waste [...]

And having had the garlic fries at Safeco, I believe the woman when she says that no major tonsil hockey was going on: Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch. But then last week, a lesbian [...]

If you want the blow-by-blow of how Obama’s team pulled of one of the greatest political upsets in recent history read this WaPo story. Obviously something like this is going to look like genius in retrospect, but it’s still striking how well they played the game.

Great speech last night, as per usual. It still hasn’t quite sunk in that the Democratic primary is over, and he won. It’s easy to forget in the heat of the moment, but it has been pretty amazing these last few months tuning in every other Tuesday or so and watching him speak all across [...]