Liberal Talk Radio

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 [...]

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, [...]

Here you questioned the financial viability of YouTube. Meanwhile . . .

The global conspiracy expands to include punk rock: Take a fistful of New York attitude, more than a dash of kvetching, irony, humor and sarcasm; throw in the memory of the Holocaust and aspiring to assimilate; blend with lefty politics and social justice; stir up youthful disaffection, outsider status and rejection of your parents’ and [...]

From the Birmingham News — actors are doing research for a revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” . . . in Alabama: The cast of “Fiddler on the Roof” got a Hanukkah present of sorts on Saturday — a crash course in Judaism and Yiddish before a rehearsal for Birmingham’s upcoming presentation of the play. [...]

Hate to say it, but if anyone deserves the full wrath of Gloria Allred, it’s Michael Richards: Michael Richards will apologize in person to the four black men he targeted in a tirade of racial slurs during a recent comedy club performance. A retired judge will mediate the meeting and determine whether he should take [...]

As they say, the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. Amid a growing barrage of front-page headlines, U.S. embassy officials “strongly suggested” President Bush’s twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues, U.S. diplomatic and security sources tell ABC News. And while the Blunder Twins [...]

A massive generation-defining cultural moment has been averted. Damn: News Corp., the parent company of book publisher HarperCollins and the FOX network, has canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.” “I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” said Rupert Murdoch, [...]

Not to keep plugging ill-conceived shameless self-promotion, but I think this dovetails nicely with Matski’s theory: The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, whose immodest goal is for everyone in the world to have an orgasm Dec. 22 while focusing on world peace. “The orgasm gives out [...]

Great article in the NYT about how detached many of our soldiers are from politics on the home front. As the article notes, this in part reflects the military’s cultural taboo about participation in politics, but I think it’s also indicative of a general lack of political knowledge/interest in politics among the families and people [...]