Liberal Talk Radio

So in the evening hours of Thursday, April 23, I was robo-called by Rassmussen to take one of their robo-polls. I admit, I was curious, so I stayed on the line. It took about eight and-a-half minutes, and I scribbled down the questions in the meat of the poll (i.e., not the general “did you [...]

While going to see Juno at the movie theater last week, I was subjected (and not for the first time) to this National Guard recruitment music video: That’s right, “liberal” Hollywood tried to send me to Iraq and tried to convince me not to get an abortion all in the same sitting. Anyway, the video [...]

It’s hard to believe that the Home Shopping Network is turning 30 this month: HSN launches its first national network TV campaign in five years today to woo channel flippers to park for a peek at the network’s new look during its 30th anniversary. “Thirty years is an important milestone to celebrate the business that [...]

In other spam news (two spam posts in one day!), I suppose this explains why Nigerians continue to keep at it after all these years: Ed Mezvinsky, a former Iowa Congressman, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud after getting caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams. Initially, Mezvinsky became the victim of [...]

Offer it, and they will accept it: Thirty thousand Ford Motor Company workers — nearly half of the automaker’s unionized work force — have agreed to leave their jobs in exchange for a buyout or a package of early retirement benefits, the company said this morning. All of the 75,000 Ford employees represented by the [...]

Although I think it’s interesting and important to have a public conversation about the best way to deal with the terrorist threat, I wonder if we would be as vocal about rights, wiretapping, extraordinary rendition and everything else if Bush wasn’t in power. The issue seems to be boiled down to this: How the measure [...]

“I’d rather be dead than Red.” Who’d of’ve thunk that in less than a generation that line would go from the mantra of gun-toting haters to the M.O. of America’s socialists?

Most people in this situation say something along the lines of “I read the papers . . .” Not Bush: “I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as [...]

The Plank asks: Yesterday’s New York Times spotlighted the coming resurgence of the nuclear power industry. We know how Republicans feel about this (fission=good). What about Democrats? Does the liberal anti-nuke-folk-song sentiment still prevail within the party? Might some Democratic 2008 presidential candidate dare to make nuclear power an important part of his (or, um, [...]

In a fit of Idle Speculation, someone here once ventured that a major male sports figure will come out of the closet before a leading man in Hollywood. Now Ian McKellen confirms that Hollywood is remarkably closeted: Sir Ian McKellen has said openly gay US actors are prevented from having successful Hollywood careers. “It is [...]