Liberal Talk Radio

One of the best examples of the improper use of e-mail that we’ve seen in some time:
Hundreds of would-be staffers in Gov. Spitzer’s administration were nervously biting their nails yesterday after an e-mail address list of job seekers accidentally became public.
One applicant, with strong ties to Assembly Republicans, told The Post he feared he [...]

I revile the Governor’s decision to put the tunnel to a vote.
So, in protest, here’s my commentary on why ballot initiatives (and direct democracy generally) are bad.

Just when you assumed college kids couldn’t possibly be more out of touch with reality comes proof that they are, in fact, even more out of touch with reality than you previously assumed, and apparently have been for a long time:
The City College of New York will remove from one of its community centers the [...]

Fortunately for the rest of us, no one really pays attention to either Ward Churchill or doucheturd college students:
An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America’s [...]

Admittedly, I’m one of the small minority who thinks Iran looks a lot more like a successful Middle Eastern democracy than the President would ever care to admit. Forget that whole theocracy thing for a minute and consider that Iran, for all of its shortcomings, has a popularly elected government that is at least [...]

In other spam news (two spam posts in one day!), I suppose this explains why Nigerians continue to keep at it after all these years:
Ed Mezvinsky, a former Iowa Congressman, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud after getting caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams.
Initially, Mezvinsky became the victim of “just about [...]

Lede of the day:
The first rule of public health is one most of us learn in kindergarten: Don’t eat poop.

P.U.T.D.P. = Picking Up The Damn Phone
Jonathan Cohn does it and manages to figure out something that Rush Limbaugh needs to know.

From the Department of, Like, Duh, new research indicates that early TV viewing has a statistically valid relationship to autism and attention disorders.
Today, Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3.
Next you’re going to tell me that [...]

As George Allen’s unannoucned-but-widely-presumed candidacy for the GOP nomination for president of the United States rapidly implodes, James Carville (if he’s not in his native Louisiana watching the Saints whoop up on the Falcons) must be preparing a tactful, if slightly satisfying speech to his wife, Mary Matalin, the powerhouse GOP operative who signed on [...]