Liberal Talk Radio

When Sam Brownback raised his hand to indicate that he doesn’t believe in evolution, what he meant to say was: If belief in evolution means simply assenting to microevolution, small changes over time within a species, I am happy to say, as I have in the past, that I believe it to be true. If, [...]

After reading the first few paragraphs of Al Gore’s book excerpt in Time, I became convinced that Gore had not, in fact, invented the internet. This is because his discussion of the destruction of democracy seems so… 1990s. All this stuff about TV as a “one-way” medium, consolidation of ownership, etc. But, of course, by [...]

The great thing about used CDs is that they give the record industry a chance to shoot itself in the foot all over again: New “pawn shop” laws are springing up across the United States that will make selling your used CDs at the local record shop something akin to getting arrested. No, you won’t [...]

Belgians are so, so weird: During the week, Ivonne Janssens, 57, is a hospital cleaner. But come the weekend, she climbs the narrow steps of a three-story medieval tower and turns into a 14th-century duchess with a faux-emerald necklace, a linen headdress, a leather satchel full of fake gold coins and a retinue of mercenaries [...]

The meaningless and pork-laden vote to end the Iraq war was something special. But then Democrats do one better by resurrecting the Equal Rights Amendment. No, seriously: “Women’s equality has been for too long a dream deferred,” Congessmember Carolyn Maloney declared as she joined with several other House and Senate members last week to reintroduce [...]

Hey, Sara Corbett — congratulations, you got your most E-mailed Times story. Too bad one of your three sources seems to have made shit up: Big trouble at the New York Times Magazine this morning, as an editors’ note reveals that one of the women who appeared in last week’s cover story on female Iraq [...]

This is better than a film script: Reeling from the news that his great-grandfather was once enslaved to the family of Strom Thurmond, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday he wants a DNA test to learn whether he and the segregationist senator share a bloodline. “I’ll do it,” said Sharpton. “I can’t find out anything [...]

. . . but the only thing better would be if it was drawn by R. Crumb: Among the unlikely superheroes to be introduced tomorrow at a comic book convention at the Javits Convention Center are a skateboarding cyborg who battles terrorism, three cutesy girls from the intergalactic military police and one high school student [...]

Also, what was the brand of television? I sense an ad campaign coming on: After the discovery of the mummified body of an elderly man who died a year ago while watching television, Long Island officials are even more stunned to learn the TV was still on. Vicenzo Riccardi, 70, apparently died of natural causes [...]

Correction of the day: Due to an editing mistake, a small number of copies of yesterday’s Post carried a headline referring to “Osama” over a story about Sen. Barack Obama on Page 2. The Post regrets the error.