Liberal Talk Radio

Can’t it be both? Over the past few days, I’ve been wondering if, now that the primary is over, we can answer the question of whether the country is more sexist or racist.
Certainly it’s never going to be so clear cut, but the NYT has an interesting look at the role that [...]

I don’t know about our children, but it seems as though our salesmen and managers is learning!

Ethanol will not save us:
These plant-based fuels were originally billed as better than fossil fuels because the carbon released when they were burned was balanced by the carbon absorbed when the plants grew. But even that equation proved overly simplistic because the process of turning plants into fuels causes its own emissions — for refining [...]

Thanks to the Contrarian, as always, for holding down the fort while the rest of us are on Christmas vacation.
Right now I’m in California, where I can see several new housing developments that were supposed to have been built by now have been put on hold. The market here, a couple hours northeast of [...]

Need to post a correction to our previous episode.
In discussing the Turkish massacre of Armenians, I incorrectly assigned responsibility for those events. In fact, the Ottoman Turks, in their last days, were responsible for the attrocity. Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, himself expressed regret for those events. And despite lingering [...]

I’m liking this “free” thing for the NYT. Now I know what Paul Krugman listens to. Discussing conservatives’ efforts to distance themselves from the wreckage of Bush’s presidency, Krugman concludes:
Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did we get here?” They may tell themselves: “This is [...]

It’s not that I think that Hillary Clinton is unqualified (I don’t), or that I think she would make a poor president (not any worse than most of the other candidates, and a damn sight better than any of this year’s GOP ship of fools.)
It’s that there’s been a Bush or a Clinton holding [...]

In case you’ve ever wondered why most journalists don’t get the difference between mean and median, or how to adjust economic growth numbers for inflation, now you know:
“As for teaching journalism students how to do computer programming, that’s a long way from happening. Clyde Bentley, associate professor at Missouri School of Journalism, told [...]

Seriously, it’s just a meet-and-greet:
The Rev. Jerry Falwell will co-host a ’meet and greet’ for Sen. John McCain a week from today at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Orlando.  The Arizonan is attending, but not speaking at, the convention, billed as ‘the premier event in Christian communication.’  Falwell’s name is listed along with five other [...]