Liberal Talk Radio

Josh Marshall makes a great point: And in case it isn’t obvious, those begging as they cling by their fingertips on the precipice are not in a position to be making any demands or calling any proposals “deal killer.” Late Update: My instincts tell me that the effort to pretty this up by adding a [...]

I’m staggered by the scope and the scale of the bailouts announced today.  The Federal government — led by a Republican administration — has effectively nationalized the consumer banking industry.  This is unprecedented in our lifetimes. What’s more, they’ve effectively just used the savings of the American middle class to bailout the shareholders of the [...]

This is completely absurd. I’ve thought for a while now that America today resembles nothing so much as Rome in the 3rd or 4th centry, when they all turned into hedonists just before they were sacked by the Visigoths. Now read this and judge for yourself: The report says that eight officials in the royalty [...]

Most administrations have the good grace to go gently into their dottage.  Not so Commander Cody and his Merry Band. * Cheney affirms US desire to bring Georgia into NATO * US Special Ops attack militants inside Pakistan Thanks, George and Dick!  What, you think Putin’s going to be making googly-eyes at VP Lite and [...]

A listener wrote me the other day to give me a swift kick in the a** over what he regarded as “going soft” on Palin.  Reason?  On the show this week, Bruno and I discussed how we agree with the general consensus that, while Palin’s legislative record is certainly fair game for criticism, her family [...]

The Bush Administration is so awesome, and totally loves the free market. Or not.

Wow — how old is PBS’s demographic anyway? How about old enough to make them hope the The Police — which recently reunited after 23 years, and whose members average 59 years old (Andy Summers is nearly eligible for social security!) — will draw a younger audience: The public television stations WNET and WLIW got [...]

I meant to get to this on the podcast today, but there was just too much going on in the world. You’ll have to read the link, but suffice it to say, the war on drugs has officially gotten insane when the state is killing puppies and terrorizing upstanding citizens on suspicion of grass. More [...]

We pause a moment from the erudite and enlightened dialog you’ll usually find on this site to bring you a tale of woe possible only in Seattle. For years, I’d heard the rumors that the Seattle police actually write tickets for jaywalking. Well, turns out the rumors are true. Just when I was starting to [...]

Oh, yeah.  Desperation. Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn’t give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track. “Listen, I’m skinny but I’m tough,” Sen. Obama said. But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and [...]