Liberal Talk Radio

Alaska Airlines is shamelessly capitalizing on my Sarah Palin nightmares:

Wired has the goods:
On June 16, 2008, John Zimmerman, chief financial officer of Tomkins, gave nearly $7,000 in campaign contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Lo and behold, nary two months later Obama’s in Springfield, Missouri, suggesting drivers inflate their tires to save gas (and, by the [...]

Not only do we have Barack Obama* but America also discovers that blacks really do know how to swim:
Bronx-born swimmer Cullen Jones didn’t just help power the U.S. relay swim team to Olympic gold - he just may have shattered the stereotype that blacks can’t swim.
Although Jones isn’t the first African-American swimmer to make the [...]

Low on funds.

There’s something poetic about the news that India’s Tata Motors is buying the Land Rover and Jaguar brands from Ford. The Land Rover was the car that was used to conquer, colonize and maintain british control over India, and now it’s owned by an Indian company. We are truly in the post-colonial [...]

A new site that will do for political media consultants what Redfin did for real-estate agents:
Political campaign season is upon us and that means one thing: really bad political ads on TV. There are 50,000 public elections every year in the United States. And an estimated $3 billion will be spent on political [...]

With Clinton and Obama tearing one another to shreds, it’s seeming possible that either Obama or Clinton winning the nomination could cause a rift in the party for this election cycle, a rift that whether temporary or permanent could hand the most winnable presidential election campaign in years to the GOP.
Obviously, some kind of [...]

I love this headline, which just appeared in my RSS reader:

The collision of the lame pun and journalistic-headline-writing-comma-sytle makes for a funny juxtaposition.
Sadly, the actual article opts for a longer, less hilarious headline.

Jamal Simmons points out the similarities between an Obama-McCain election and the Santos-Vinick campaign from Season 7 of The West Wing:
Then there is Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who is perfectly filling the role Alan Alda played, Arnold Vinick, the older maverick Republican senator from the West (California in the show). Due to his willingness [...]

A genius idea, methinks. Let stormwater get naturally filtered into the ground, instead of channeling it to a sewage system where it needs to be treated.
Downside? Well, it will make it that much harder to find out how much blow you all used last weekend (so maybe that’s an upside, actually?).