Liberal Talk Radio

As in, “That barbecue is amazing!” Or, “I thought Neil Labute’s new play was just amazing!” So will a terror attack on D.C. hold up as similarly “amazing”? I doubt it. Nothing can surpass what has already happened this season on 24:
The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on [...]

Let the celebrities and entrepreneurs Twitter to their heart’s content. Soon real pros will learn the genius of “Haikuter,” the new social networking tool in which you have 140 characters to compose haikus about your present state of mind. An example:
I’m finally home
I checked the mail and the phone
Now I must drink beer
Update (3/31): [...]

On the latest plans to save the economy and Afghanistan.
Links Mentioned: Krugman on the economic plan … Kaplan on the war strategy … the NYT editorial board gives up … war crimes charges are explored.

Just as he promised in the campaign, President Obama is ratcheting up the American commitment in Afghanistan, doubling the number of troops there. The Prof and I talk a lot about Afghanistan on the show, because it’s such a fascinating country and crossroads and potential quagmire for foreign occupiers going back 1,000 years. [...]

Oh well. At least we’ll always have Madoff:
The only real motivation that anyone at A.I.G.-F.P. now has is fear. Mr. Cuomo has threatened to “name and shame,” and his counterpart in Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, has made similar threats — even though attorneys general are supposed to stand for due process, to conduct trials in courts [...]

Now this is just over the top:

Sorry for the delay in this week’s podcast, folks. I’d planned on getting back in town in time to record tonight, but due to the wonders of modern air transport, That ain’t gonna happen.
No doubt there will be plenty of kvetching about said transport system next week.

Let’s be clear here. When I said it was important to support the Post-Intelligencer as it adapts to technology, that did not mean you could go and blog the weather.
The weird thing about weather is that there’s a pretty simple non-technological way to determine it: look out the window. And if that doesn’t suffice, there’s [...]

Bite it, NCAA Bracketer-In-Chief. You, too, Kornacki:
The president’s two first round “upset” picks really don’t amount to much. He has the 11th-seeded Temple Owls, a streaking squad that won last weekend’s Atlantic-10 tournament, knocking off Arizona State, a team whose down-the-stretch underachievement culminated in an embarrassing Pac-10 title game loss to USC (a team that [...]

Clearly the President should lay off the quips:
President Obama’s historic appearance on the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” was accompanied by a foot-in-the-mouth quip about the Special Olympics he later regretted.
Talking about his dismal bowling skills, Obama said he’d been practicing and had gotten his score up to 129.
“Oh, no, that’s very good,” Leno [...]