Liberal Talk Radio

Ladies, learn from Dina Matos McGreevey’s experience — if your boyfriend wants a three-way with a man, it probably means he’s gay: A former driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday made the bombshell claim that Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay – because he was [...]

Mitt, quit with the “Sanctuary City” claptrap (besides, it sounds too Mormon) and focus on useful arguments: In other words, as incredible as it might seem, Rudy Giuliani—whose presidential candidacy is steeped in 9/11 iconography—has been doing business with a government agency run by the very man who made the attacks on 9/11 possible. You [...]

Or, what happens when people who think snarky=intelligent spend too much time in a room alone together, drunk. The Strangler urges a no vote for Rail: Sound Transit/RTID Proposition No. 1 VOTE NO The joint roads and transit ballot measure shackles expansion of Sound Transit’s popular light-rail system to a massive roads- expansion package that [...]

Somebody find Rudy’s pills, quick: Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani urged NATO to admit Australia, India, Israel, Japan and Singapore on Wednesday as part of proposals to combat Islamic extremism … Among his proposals for the United States and Britain to take the lead in “winning this war, [on global terrorism]” Giuliani urged the two [...]

Giuliani launches a radio spot in Iowa claiming he’s “liberals’ worst nightmare.” [sigh]  Is it really too much to ask that candidates for president stop conflating “leftist” with “liberal”?  I’ve been standing on my soapbox on this for a long time … all I’ve managed to accomplish is a slight increase in my blood pressure.  [...]

Cue America’s favorite combover — Paul Wolfowitz is in trouble again.  Turns out the guy who was so self-righteous that more than 3000 young Americans are dead, and over 25,000 horribly wounded, couldn’t separate the thing in his pants from his job. What is it with these Bush guys?  I just can’t tell.  It’s not [...]

The meaningless and pork-laden vote to end the Iraq war was something special. But then Democrats do one better by resurrecting the Equal Rights Amendment. No, seriously: “Women’s equality has been for too long a dream deferred,” Congessmember Carolyn Maloney declared as she joined with several other House and Senate members last week to reintroduce [...]

The Washington Post’s David Broder, today, writing on why congressional investigations might go too far: Accountability is certainly important, but Democrats must know that people were really voting for action on Iraq, health care, immigration, energy and a few other problems. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, writing after the 2006 elections: As reported by CNN, [...]

Ten years ago or so, media consolidation was predicted to be the precursor to the Fall of the Republic. Consolidation will eliminate choice, destroy local flavor in broadcasting, and generally turn our children into mindless zombies enslaved to corporations like McDonald’s and the Gap. Admitedly, I was in the camp with the naysayers. The only [...]

I’m always loathe to blame the victim in these sort of things, but what the hell are you doing walking around Loyal Heights at 2 in the morning?! It’s not a bad neighborhood, at all, just a really random place to be on foot.