Liberal Talk Radio

Sometime — probably in the very near future — someone will make a biopic of John Hughes’ life. Done correctly, it could win an Academy Award — even if only because A.O. Scott is the right age for it. When they get around to writing it, the screenwriter will use Molly Ringwald’s op-ed as a [...]

In case you ever wondered what the real reason for hiring Rahm Emanuel was, it’s likely buried in the President’s television watching psyche: President Barack Obama can’t stand to be without his “Entourage.” Call it a guilty pleasure, or maybe it just rings familiar to him. The HBO series about an aspiring actor features a [...]

These are actual headlines . . . What’s So Special About a Team of Rivals? What’s the Value of a Big Bonus? What’s the Point of Daylight Time? The black-white Oughts (both George W. Bush’s us-versus-them and the opposition’s are-you-f-ing-kidding-me response to it) will give way to a decade of contrarianism, where everything you know [...]

Maybe Major League Baseball agreeing to push back the start of the notional Game 6 of the World Series so that Obama’s 30 minute feature won’t conflict with it? (h/t Atrios)

I hadn’t realized that Senator Ted Stevens (R-Indicted) has his home in Girdwood. I spent a few weeks in Girdwood a number of years ago, and based on the amount of a certain herbal smoke that consistently wafted through the air during my morning walks, the Senator’s evaluation of the Internet as a “series of [...]

Question: oil is now at $135/barrel or so. At what price are the Blue Angels too embarrassed to fly this summer?

The talk of Obama asking Clinton to be his running mate is heating up again after her less-than-stellar performance last night in IN and NC. Can I just say this would be a bad idea? And not only because you’d have Hillary’s negatives dragging down the ticket. Obama would be a fool to allow Hillaryland [...]

I didn’t see this one coming. Maybe the New Yorkers who hang out here feel differently? Update: Looks like it wasn’t just the New Yorkers who were expecting something like this. Check out Matski’s post below for a more informed take on this story.

Is the fix in up here in wussy progressive Washington? Various sources are reporting that the Washington GOP watched Huckabee lead in the caucus by a point or two for most of the day yesterday. McCain seemed to take the lead by a point with around 75% of precincts reporting. When the count reached 87.2% [...]