Liberal Talk Radio

To follow up on something we discussed on this week’s show, here’s some detail on the relationship between SAM and WaMu: Left out of the $2.6 million commitment is SAM’s rental agreement with Washington Mutual. SAM financed its 2007 expansion in downtown Seattle by sharing space with the bank. The museum’s tax forms indicate it [...]

And now you know: No photos in the club enable most of the athletes to relax a little more. And autograph-seekers and fanboys are less inclined to bother them at a strip club. (Thanks, Deadspin)

[We pause momentarily from our election coverage to remind America that, yes, there's life outside of the campaigns.] For years now, I’ve been having a running argument about the value of stretching before exercise. I grew up with a highly regimented (and very traditional) exercise routine that invariably followed the pattern of stretching followed by [...]

Want to help me plan the perfect election party? I’m looking for some signature Obama drinks.  Here’s what I’ve come up with so far: The Obama Hope: vodka, Kahlua, and a hint of tequila with cream The 538 Sweep: vodka, tequila, rum, gin, triple sec, and blue curacao with Coke for color The Bush Impeachment: [...]

This essay by Andrew Lahde is so good, I just had to link to it again. Lahde — a former hedge fund manager — announces his intention to retire from the business of managing other people’s money.  He rips into the supposedly “smart” MBAs from top schools who rode American capitalism into the ground like [...]

Gotta love Mitch Albom.  His folksy, leftist populism has always been a big hit with sports fans in Detroit.  Mitch is crafty enough to be overtly non-partisan, but if you read his columns long enough, you get the impression that he’s a closet D. Reading Mitch’s piece yesterday on the firing of Matt Millen, I’m [...]

And here I was hoping America’s problems might be solved by the entire planet getting sucked into a black hole: The world’s newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, will not begin operations again until April, officials at the European Center for Nuclear Research said Tuesday. Ah, well.  At least if the world [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]