Liberal Talk Radio

I have to admit, as a founding member of the reality-based community, I’ve been a little burned out on right-wing nut jobs lately.  What with the Birthers, the Obama-as-Joker posters (what the h*** is up with those?), and a certain gubernatorial abdication*, there’s not a lot more my shattered hope for the American polity can [...]

Okay, so maybe I’m the last one to hear about this (and it wouldn’t be the first time), but I caught some of Rachel Maddow’s show last night and found myself terrified by a video of a “birther” hijacking a GOP town hall meeting.  (Not the same video, ’cause I’m lazy, but here’s an earlier [...]

A strange, bizarre, and yet somehow pedantic rant from the increasingly irrelevant American far right:
… thankfully, Americans are not buying it. In spite of the fact that one can drive by an open field on Saturdays and usually see it filled with young boys and girls playing soccer, the game’s popularity has not moved anywhere [...]

I had dinner at Dick’s on the way to the post office.
That’s right, folks. Instant service. 100% beef.
I could go on, but I got drunk and need to go to bed.

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 [...]

Perhaps Blagojevich didn’t get the fairest treatment but the more he speaks, the clearer it seems that the legislature probably got it right:
“Well, baby, we’re out of here,” he said to Louanner Peters, a deputy governor. His entourage hurried him toward his S.U.V. and the airport, reminding him that time might be ticking on those [...]

Wise sage John Bolton (formerly, Bush ambassador to the UN) pleads for a return to strict constitutionalism in American treaty-making:
THE Constitution’s Treaty Clause has long been seen, rightly, as a bulwark against presidential inclinations to lock the United States into unwise foreign commitments. The clause will likely be tested by Barack Obama’s administration, as the [...]

Big Pharma kills terrorists:
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. Viagra.
“Take one [...]

. . . you discover that ephemera from your favorite bands growing up are now part of a fusty old historical society.
(See also, the Minnesota Historical Society Soul Asylum Record Series Finding Aid)

Palin got a crash course in diplomacy today.
[Snarky, non-contextual aside: I've still met more heads of state than she has.]
Henry Kissinger was among the grandees brought in to tutor young Liza.
[Snarky, contextual aside: Do we really want an impressionable young lady like Palin to get the entirety of her foreign policy experience at the hands [...]