Liberal Talk Radio

Before the existential threat of Islamic fanaticism took up most of my ire, I was most pissed about ATM fees. Guess what’s back:
Citigroup is not the only bank grappling with tremendous losses. Many financial institutions are hiking customer fees at record levels.
It may be quick and easy, but that ATM convenience is going to [...]

A Haiku . . .
Meaning lost on me!
But for some battleground states
McCain limericks?
Or . . .
Pretentious poems,
Nugatory responses;
Your Times op-ed page!
*Don’t ask me . . .

There were like literally two million men on the street and you pick this guy to interview? Astonishing:
Fans here had waited 25 years for a championship parade down Broad Street. The Phillies gave them one Friday, and so many fans showed up that they nearly shut down the city.
. . .
The parade drew fans from [...]

Yarrr:
Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline is crawling with pirates, a serious problem given that so much of the country is dependent on emergency food aid, which comes mostly by ship.
The pirates are highly organized. They work in teams. There is even a pirate spokesman (who could not be reached for comment on Friday).

Ron Suskind’s “telling lessons” illustrate the genesis of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut and Sarbanes-Oxley, which is to say, the Administration acted quickly to address structural flaws in the financial system:
The Federal Reserve chairman and senior economic officials of the Bush administration solemnly filed into the large conference room of the Treasury Department. There was [...]

A less commented upon portion of the Politicos article in which McCain fails to count his houses. Said article also quotes McCain’s revised definition of wealth:
“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are [...]

. . . so then your 15-year-old will be shot in secret and not on the street corner. Is there some kind of new metric when it comes to drug dealers? Cory Booker talking about Newark’s new high-tech camera systems:
These are not your standard security cameras; these are high resolution, night vision capability, the [...]

This is a pretty good representation of what happens when the GOP governing philosophy holds sway. Apparently the Governator decided to try to cut salaries for all state employees to minimum wage by Executive Order.
The Republican governor signed an executive order last week recommending the cut to minimum wage for most permanent state workers and [...]

Most Americans don’t give a rip:
WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say that the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama, but a substantial number say that it could influence voters this fall should he be the Democratic presidential nominee, [...]

Maybe you trust this man to make smart environmental policy? I wouldn’t:
Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of Brooklyn and Queens, drives a 2008 Chevrolet Impala, leased for $219 a month. Representative Michael R. McNulty, a Democrat from the Albany area, gets around in a 2007 Mercury Mariner hybrid, a sport utility vehicle, for $816 a [...]