Liberal Talk Radio

A disclaimer: Although I don’t live in Seattle, and BATP is of course a Seattle-based production, I love Seattle and have visited many times. Some of my best friends live in Seattle! Which is to say, I don’t necessarily understand all of the ins and outs of the demise of the Post-Intelligencer beyond what I [...]

President Obama owed Huffington Post writer Sam Stein one. Last night, he paid him back: It was a bookend moment. President Obama on Monday evening became the 10th American president to call on Helen Thomas at a White House news conference. And he was the first to call on Sam Stein, a reporter for The [...]

Good old American ingenuity comes to the rescue: Ever had to go while playing golf? Can’t hold it for all 18 holes? A New York-born urologist came up with a solution to golfers’ bothered bladders – a faux club that fits in a golf bag, but is really a mobile urinal. “I wanted people to [...]

Old way to ressurect your career — demean yourself on a scripted reality show. New way to ressurect your career — cubism: Can Martha Stewart take a pie in the face — even one she baked herself? Fine Living Network is about to find out. On Sept. 16, Fine Living will unveil a new original [...]

Brier Dudley’s right: tax incentives for Yahoo! and Microsoft to build data centers in WA are triply absurd. (1) there’s no other place they can go for cheap hydro power, (2) Microsoft’s going to shut down the Yahoo! data center as soon as they buy the compay, and (3) data centers don’t create jobs. They [...]

This is a little off-topic for this blog, but since we’ve been covering the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal in the podcast, I thought it might be relevant to note that Microsoft is buying Danger, Inc., the company that makes mobile phones including the popular “Sidekick.” What I find interesting is that Google had already hired away one [...]

Having used the iPhone interface for Facebook for a few months now, I’m convinced that smart phones are the natural environment for FB and its applications. So it makes perfect sense to me that Nokia is making a deal to put Facebook prominently on all of its phones. In fact, I’d go even farther. Having [...]

The future busts bad cops: An NYPD detective will be charged today with lying on the witness stand about how he interrogated a teenage shooting suspect after the savvy 17-year-old captured the whole thing on his MP3 player, sources told The Post yesterday. When Detective Christopher Perino of the 44the Precinct took the stand last [...]

When it’s winter in Finland, what are you going to do to pass the long, cold nights? How about rigging up your dormitory into a 15-story, cell-phone controlled Tetris game? This makes me weep, it’s so beautiful and pointless:

In case you haven’t heard, Amazon released an e-book reader called Kindle this week. On the surface, it’s a compelling package: it can deliver books, newspapers, and a few blogs over the cell network, with no monthly charges. You buy the books, you buy the content as you want it. Battery life seems good, too. [...]