Liberal Talk Radio

Obama detractors on Left and Right have both taken pains to paint him as a closet Muslim. The willing mix up of “Obama” with “Osama” is just the most egregious example of a pattern that’s emerged over and over in this campaign - point out Obama’s differences in an effort to marginalize him and [...]

American Apparel’s Dov Charney will finally have his day in court:
The founder of American Apparel will star in a sexual-harassment trial this week, and he makes Isiah Thomas sound like Susan B. Anthony.
Dov Charney walks around his office in his underwear, sleeps with employees, and calls women bitches, sluts, whores and the c-word - [...]

I happened to catch a bit of Glenn Beck’s “Public Viewer” on Pravda while at the gym last night.
This guy may possibly be the biggest douche in national media today. Seriously — comparisons with Father Charles Coughlin come to mind. He’s a barely literate blowhard that likes to stroke his own ego to [...]

Friedman has a nice essay in today’s NYT laying out just how far America’s fallen as a result of Bush’s disastrous post-9/11 overreaction.
Like all good satire, the story [in the Onion] made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true — how much, since 9/11, we’ve become “The United States of Fighting [...]

Look, I detest Iran’s repressive policies as much as the next American.  And I clearly think that Columbia is well within its rights — nay, performing a critical service for our democracy — by inviting L’il Kid Nuclear to speak.
But still, it’s utterly deplorable to invite a guest to your home and then use it [...]

Apparently Mia Farrow is in Africa filming the sequel to Bernardo Bertolucci’s terrible adaptation of Paul Bowles’ book:
Mia Farrow has a daring plan to win the freedom of an ailing rebel leader from war-ravaged Darfur - she wants to take his place.
The activist actress offered to trade places with Suleiman Jamous, who needs a stomach [...]

For all the saber-rattling towards Iran coming from Dick Cheney and his ilk in recent months, it’s worth putting the country in context. Fareed Zakaria does this in his excellent Newsweek cover story on post-Bush foreign policy:
No country has caused greater panic among American elites—of both parties. There are many influential voices arguing for [...]

UBL may have succeeded in ridding the holy land of U.S. troops but look who has Starbucks right across the street from the Kaaba. Win the battle, lose the war, beeyotch:
Five times a day across the globe devout Muslims face this city in prayer, focused on a site where they believe Abraham built a temple [...]

Good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this is totally rad:
The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes.
Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing high-definition DVDs.
They [...]

Interesting to note that in Tennessee, cars have passed so-called “stationary” polluters (i.e., factories) as the worst polluters:
Forget the smoke billowing into the air from factories. The bigger pollutant in Middle Tennessee these days isn’t smokestacks, but tailpipes.
Because more federal environmental regulations have been focused on the manufacturing industry over the last decade, state environmental [...]