Liberal Talk Radio

“It’s my job to make sure you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.”
- Guidance Counselor Tami Taylor to fullback Tim Riggins on the TV Show Friday Night Lights, in what may be the most succinct argument for activist government ever penned.
(I’m just now working my way through Season 1, but FNL, [...]

Mr. Thompson? Mr. Hunter S. Thompson?
Your car has arrived:
Driver arrested with grenade, meth
The driver in the carpool lane didn’t have a passenger, but Federal Way police say he was carrying some odd cargo — some meth and a hand grenade.
Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, an officer spotted a pickup headed down an Interstate 5 high-occupancy [...]

Because he can write blog posts like this without flinching:
In the cultural weakness of whiteness (that it can only reproduce itself by itself and with no other) we might find one important source for the nation’s abnormally massive military budget. The problem of racial fragility is solved by warrior might. A race that does not [...]

It boggles the mind that it took the Democrats 5 years to come up with this idea, and even still, the leadership is running away from it.

The blogger known as “Fake Steve Jobs” lets loose on NBC after the network decides to bail on iTunes:
You know what the new network is? It’s me. I don’t think people have quite figured this out yet, but just as Pixar was once a medical imaging company until I decided to make it into [...]

How do you beat child pornography charges? Start appealing to the film geeks! And in a Faustian deal, traffic to IFC’s website has increased 300 percent since they started streaming R. Kelly’s latest installments of Trapped in the Closet:
The story began simply enough: the love triangle of Sylvester, Kathy and Rufus. But after 12 chapters [...]

Even though I’m part of a high-profile political blogging machine, I have to say that I don’t care so much about the 2008 Presidential election right now. For me, that’s OK — I can be Contrarian like that.
Which is to say that as I don’t follow the race, I do happen to notice headlines on [...]

Man, if you ever thought that it was a bad idea to give China the Olympics in 2008, it’s certainly not the case anymore. The games are providing all sorts of leverage against the Chinese, including helping us save Darfur.
The international community is also using the Olympics to make China clean up its pollution [...]

This is what you get to do if you’re a chemist in the Big Easy:
You need wormwood to make real absinthe, but the herb is a tricky one to work with — one of its key compounds, thujone, has long been considered the cause of the drink’s supposed side effects: hallucinations, artistic inspiration, degeneracy and [...]

Name that tune.* (Hint: the band’s first “major” release was Come On Pilgrim)
Great piece in the NYT today about how it’s imperative that we continue our efforts to colonize Mars (one of the only things the brain-dead chimp’s got right, even if his plan is a half-baked “lookoverthere”).
In 1993, J. Richard Gott III [...]