Liberal Talk Radio

GM says it needs a big loan to keep operating. Do you think they’ll get President Obama to open its checkbook more easily if they offer him this sweet, sweet ride?

Well, far be it from me to kick a governor when she’s down, but somehow I missed this and I thought it was too good to pass up. Sarah Palin fell victim to a prank call from a couple of Canadians pretending to be Nicolas Sarkozy. Four years from now, remember just how close this [...]

This is fascinating. The Iraqis were dragging their heels on the Bush administration’s Status of Forces Agreement, but now that Obama’s been elected, they actually think there’s a change the U.S. might someday withdraw, so they’re eager to sign. And notice how when you stop incessantly saber-rattling, everyone calms down a little bit: Many Shiite [...]

At our Tuesday night election shindig, a spontaneous chorus of the “Star-Spangled Banner” broke out at 8pm PST as the West Coast was called for Obama. We liberals seem to have found our patriotism again. The P-I’s noticed, and helpfully, they’ve provided a handy instructional guide on how to display the flag, for all you [...]

Bruno and I found time last night to get ’round to discussing what Obama needs to do right away to capitalize on his momentum (Bruno likes to call it a mandate; I’m not so sure yet). Wild prognostication may be my special calling, but mind reading isn’t.  With that in mind, here’s Matski’s guide to [...]

A Haiku . . . Meaning lost on me! But for some battleground states McCain limericks? Or . . . Pretentious poems, Nugatory responses; Your Times op-ed page! *Don’t ask me . . .

So Tom’s an IT consultant by trade, and Tom got tapped to head down to travel to an intensive technical training conference at some resort somewhere in some mountain range, far away from his family, friends, and love, sucking it up to gain knowledge among a demographic legendary (in Tom’s experience) for its unwillingness to [...]

Sunday NYT business section has a great piece on what went down at WaMu towards the end. Poor Keysha Cooper, one of the underwriters on staff, got reprimanded by her superiors because she refused to sign off on crappy loans: MS. COOPER started at WaMu in 2003 and lasted three and a half years. At [...]

[We pause momentarily from our election coverage to remind America that, yes, there's life outside of the campaigns.] For years now, I’ve been having a running argument about the value of stretching before exercise. I grew up with a highly regimented (and very traditional) exercise routine that invariably followed the pattern of stretching followed by [...]