Liberal Talk Radio

All I can say is, if people in AZ insist on making English their official language, I shall have no tolerance for its improper employment.  No dangling participles, no ending sentences in prepositions, and I’m going to insist that every person living in AZ demonstrate proper usage of the semicolon before I’ll consider them citizens.

Those election season attack ads finally cross a line: According to the Republican National Committee, the stakes of the upcoming midterm elections are nothing less than the future of national security. The stakes of running video images of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to drive that point home, however, are substantially less. When the [...]

How do we know fall is upon us? Women of all ages are busy figuring out what Sexy-[blank] costume to wear: In her thigh-highs and ruby miniskirt, Little Red Riding Hood does not appear to be en route to her grandmother’s house. And Goldilocks, in a snug bodice and platform heels, gives the impression she [...]

I have to be honest with you — I hated this book when I read it in college. Of course, I hated most things about the formal study of international affairs — I always felt there was something inherently wrong about pinhead academics casually discussing things like genocide and populist revolution (these were people who [...]

It’s true that history will judge what’s happening now (and also true that the Future will be left to pick up the pieces). And I’ll give you that it’s a sour, sour pickle that we’re in. The biggest issue, IMO, remains: there’s very little agreement on first principals. In some sense, by quibbling over the definition [...]

After international officials outlawed the export of wild caviar from the Caspian and Black Seas, the market has turned to farmed fish, and I have to say, the whole business comes off as slightly perverse*: In the mid-1990′s the farmed caviar industry was nothing more than a few marine biologists with a dream. Today it [...]

What, did Mike Myers wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? The Scottish Liberation Army purportedly threatens the English water supply: A Scottish terrorist organization Sunday threatened to poison England’s public water supply, endangering hundreds of thousands of lives. The Scottish National Liberation Army, dedicated to Scottish independence, made the threat [...]

If Clinton were still in power he would have probably preempted the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11, too.

Ladies, Homeland might be cramping your style but not all is lost, the Thursday Styles section explains: Enforcement has loosened slightly since restrictions were imposed by the Transportation Security Administration on Aug. 10, after a group of people suspected of plotting midair explosions with simple carry-on liquids were arrested in England. But the guidelines remain, [...]

Matt Drudge and the GOP media with a late summer “lookoverthere!” Er, wasn’t there just a war or something? Maybe it shouldn’t surprise me. According to Reuters, a whole lot more Americans can identify two of Snow White’s seven dwarfs than can name two Supreme Court Justices And alcoholism is a bad thing ’cause why?