Liberal Talk Radio

I’m not sure when the last time was that I checked the “bottom” of my soul — it’s possible I may never have checked down there — but some have: Judith A. McHale was expecting a contentious session with Ansar Abbasi, a Pakistani journalist known for his harsh criticism of American foreign policy, when she [...]

A game in which you can test your familiarity with the two humorists. Andy Rooney excerpts are taken from his 60 Minutes commentaries. David Sedaris excerpts are from his Me Talk Pretty One Day story collection. For each subject there are two writing examples; you decide who is who. Part One: Computers David Sedaris or [...]

On this week’s podcast, The Prof speculated that the Secret Service had probably begun looking into right-wing radicals and militias that might target the President. Well, now we have proof: The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America’s [...]

Bruno, weren’t you wondering at some point what the Commerce Secretary does? Now we know: President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to quickly nominate a commerce secretary after his first choice, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, withdrew this week. Frankly, the far more pressing task at the Commerce Department is to name a new director [...]

He’s being incredibly charming on The Daily Show right now. Must… resist…

. . . this should succeed: High beer prices are on tap, and global warming could be to blame. The environmental crisis has hit suds-lovers where it hurts most — at the bar and in the wallet — as prices of grains and hops soar, activists said yesterday. “When we’re trying to deal with young [...]

And it’s helpful to remember that, you know, our entire freakin’ economy is based on trucking: Ricardo Caraballo was having a familiar American experience at the filling station the other day, groaning as the pump clicked up, up, up. By the time he finished it read $505, and his tank was only half full. A [...]

The U.S. Air Force has adopted the phrase “Above All” as its new slogan. My evidence is strictly circumstantial, but I regard the Air Force slogan’s similarity to the results of a Youtube search for the phrase as…probably more than coincidental. Really, how much less subtle could this be? To paraphrase Mitt Romney, who let [...]

Harrison Ford, call your office: Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane’s control systems, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The computer network in the Dreamliner’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is [...]

The threat is real. The threat is here: The metallic object – bigger than a golf ball and as heavy as a soup can – that crashed through a Freehold Township, N.J., home’s roof on Jan. 2 was not a meteorite after all, geologists said yesterday. Instead, the scientists said, it was a stainless-steel alloy [...]