Liberal Talk Radio

TBS is playing a rerun of Season 4 of HBO’s Sex and the City. In Episode 64, Carrie has just broken up with Aidan and is looking to buy an apartment. The bank loan officer tells her that despite being New York Magazine’s best columnist or whatever, she’s an undesirable candidate for a loan. [...]

Maybe it’s time for Obama to give a big come-to-Jesus red state-blue state speech to explain to America the cultural milieu in Hyde Park, Chicago that allows yahoos like Bill Ayers to remain unrepentant. It could be as groundbreaking as his Philadelphia race relations explainer!
Sample opener: “I have already deplored, in unequivocal terms, the [...]

Yarrr:
Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline is crawling with pirates, a serious problem given that so much of the country is dependent on emergency food aid, which comes mostly by ship.
The pirates are highly organized. They work in teams. There is even a pirate spokesman (who could not be reached for comment on Friday).

Ron Suskind’s “telling lessons” illustrate the genesis of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut and Sarbanes-Oxley, which is to say, the Administration acted quickly to address structural flaws in the financial system:
The Federal Reserve chairman and senior economic officials of the Bush administration solemnly filed into the large conference room of the Treasury Department. There was [...]

. . . Word is spreading of classy new lunch dining:
Business is building at Jensen’s in Eagan, where the well-known supper club is now offering weekday lunches — with a freshly made popover welcoming each customer.

Before Ike hits:
Oil analyst Peter Beutel says residents in the greater New York area will see a raise of 50 cents a gallon in the next 72 hours.
Beutel is also predicting the Chicago area will see a 75 cent raise and Houston area will be hit with a $2 increase.
Beutel says Hurricane Ike is to [...]

Professor, you have to watch the speech first. MoDo is off; Palin is more like Marge Gunderson . . . nice brand, by the way — she’ll kill in 2012 or 2016; before then, Kristen Wiig will kill as Palin.
Update: The Swankster comments:
Besides McCain’s compelling military biography, there hasn’t been a single specific item [...]

Did Nagourney really have to use his middle name? Seems a tiny bit provocative, even if they always do that:
Barack Hussein Obama, a freshman senator who defeated the first family of Democratic Party politics with a call for a fundamentally new course in politics, was nominated by his party on Wednesday to be the 44th [...]

No one seems to want to claim them:
Paris Hilton probably won’t be invited to Barack Obama’s home anytime soon, even though the celebrity heiress dug her nails into GOPer John McCain in a recent video spoof.
“Malia and Sasha are very down on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton,” said Barack Obama, referring to his 10- and [...]

Not only do we have Barack Obama* but America also discovers that blacks really do know how to swim:
Bronx-born swimmer Cullen Jones didn’t just help power the U.S. relay swim team to Olympic gold - he just may have shattered the stereotype that blacks can’t swim.
Although Jones isn’t the first African-American swimmer to make the [...]