Liberal Talk Radio

Bill, I really don’t need you to tell me that the leading Democratic candidates for president are hesitant to discuss the relative benefits of the troop surge in Iraq. I seem to have read somewhere that the surge is working. That’s good! It’s important to take care of stuff in Iraq! But you know what? [...]

Was the freelance/permalance labor strife at Viacom precipitated by New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s overaggressive meddling? In other words, was a freelance-employer relationship that actually provided benefits to freelancers stupidly, unaccountably deemed illegal by Spitzer so that the upshot is that now none of them will get benefits? It seems that way: Not every employer [...]

But as Times critic Kelefa Sanneh points out, there’s a great plug for due process somewhere in there: Zack De La Rocha is the lead rapper and agitator and sermonizer of Rage Against the Machine, but on Saturday night at Randalls Island he barely talked between songs. Then, near the end of the set, came [...]

Though I’m pretty sure folks like Bruno have checked most of these things off, the Stockton Record suggests 30 things you should do by the time you turn 30: Sadly, most people don’t fully realize the freedom their 20s hold. They don’t understand that these years might well be their last chance to experience all [...]

I don’t totally understand Timothy Egan’s guest op-ed in the Times today about (I guess) how Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot about immigration: He was loud, he was blustery and he was clear: our country is being overrun by Mexicans. To back his bark, he wrote, “Whatever It Takes,” as subtle as a [...]

So to speak. The Seattle City Council writes a letter to the Zoo: As construction prices climb, and concerns about global warming come into focus, Seattle City Council members are having second thoughts about a four-level parking garage project at Woodland Park Zoo that it approved three times in the past six years. The zoo [...]

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 [...]

A month ago I mused that the new dollar coin would once again fail, because they weren’t taking the bill out of circulation. But I didn’t know why such a boneheaded decision would be made. Until I read this Slate piece: Who on earth thinks like this? People who have a vested interest in producing [...]

Fortunately for the rest of us, no one really pays attention to either Ward Churchill or doucheturd college students: An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on [...]

Creeping Kerryism is back again with headlines like “Lesbian Cheney Pregnant”: Mary Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is pregnant with her first child. While her parents are welcoming the blessed event with “eager anticipation,” the religious right is up in arms about her baby being denied a father. Ms. Cheney, 37, will [...]