Liberal Talk Radio

Sunday NYT business section has a great piece on what went down at WaMu towards the end. Poor Keysha Cooper, one of the underwriters on staff, got reprimanded by her superiors because she refused to sign off on crappy loans:
MS. COOPER started at WaMu in 2003 and lasted three and a half years. At [...]

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 [...]

Will this get people paying attention to wiretap abuses at the NSA?
Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer.
“Hey, [...]

A while back, I wondered if one of the right-wing TV hacks (Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.) would start trolling for incendiary comments from, say, Al Sharpton and gin up some kind of controversy wherein Barack Obama would be asked to “denounce” Sharpton every time he fired off his crazy-ass mouth.
Y’know, just because he’s black, and Obama’s [...]

Perhaps you wondered why that fantastic unsolicited op-ed you wrote received no response from the Times opinon editors? Well, to start, is your father a New York Times bestselling author and a former Times writer & Times guest op-ed columnist? If so, then perhaps that perceptive piece about your semester abroad would fit nicely there, [...]

If you ever wondered how and why that hot dude or babe serving you at a restaurant was so, so inept, here’s part of the reason:
In a lawsuit and a consent decree filed yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission backed accusations by workers that Daniel Boulud denied them promotions at his restaurant Daniel because of [...]

Federalism sucks when it comes to natural disasters (think Katrina, for example) and waging fourth-generation war against the nihilistic forces of international terrorism. Which is to say, I actually don’t see what’s so great about New York City’s aggressive counter-terrorism program:
The cutting edge of the NYPD’s antiterrorism efforts, though, is David Cohen’s Intelligence Division. “We’re [...]

There may be a slight reprieve for internet radio broadcasters:
In the wake of an appeals court’s decision not to delay the imposition of a new, expensive royalty scheme, Internet radio broadcasters got an unexpected bit of good news from an unlikely source. During a Congressional roundtable initiated by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), SoundExchange executive director [...]

Even Bob Costas didn’t get the true meaning of Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop”* . . . does that make Tipper Gore a total perv? Yes, I think so.
And by the way, douchebags — I distinctly remember Al Gore being one of the main advocates for toppling Saddam. Add the PMRC to the mix, and he’s [...]

Verizon has apparently decided that the time is ripe for an Epic Battle of Liberties, pitting Right Against Right in a No-Holds-Barred Fight to the Finish. What else can you say about a claim that handing over customer data without a warrant is protected speech under the first amendment?
The response also alleges that the case [...]