Liberal Talk Radio

What a bunch of Frenchies WA State’s farmers are turning in to.
[That's right, I just called you French.  What you got?  What you got farm boy?  You gonna bring it?  You wanna piece?  Huh? HUH!?]
A cavalcade of slow-moving farm vehicles will take to the streets of downtown Seattle Thursday afternoon to support the property-rights referendum, [...]

Did you realize that 8 G.I.s just died in one day, the highest single-day toll since 2005? Maybe not, since the article was buried on A12 . . . point being that I think there’s something to the idea that anti-GOP stories are coming too fast, too furiously and, most of all, too close together [...]

If Fashion Week has started to resemble the red carpet at the Oscars (a point amplified by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on last week’s The Treatment), then the United Nations General Assembly meetings are not far behind.
For a taste, grab your jaundiced monocle and join Ben McGrath in this week’s Talk of the Town:
So many dignitaries, so [...]

I love pears as much as the next guy, but there’s something fishy here — you mean to tell us that farmers exist completely outside any market forces? I don’t quite buy it:
The pear growers here in Lake County waited decades for a crop of shapely fruit like the one that adorned their orchards last [...]

Somewhere in Princeton, a lightbulb goes off in Paul Krugman’s head, “A hook for my next column!”:
There is not much choice. There is not, because we have screwed up. Not a little but a lot. No country in Europe has screwed up as much as we have. It can be explained. We have obviously lied [...]

I don’t know if it’s a truism in public relations but it should be — you only get one chance to spin the story:
As a politician, former Gov. James E. McGreevey of New Jersey was a master of message discipline, a candidate with an uncanny ability to restrict his public statements to preordained talking points.
But [...]

Post-primary, this seems an odd tack to take:
Ned Lamont, Connecticut’s Democratic Senate candidate, has sharply criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman’s public rebuke of former President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, suggesting this week that Mr. Lieberman turned his back on a decades-old friendship and helped make a tragic episode a “media spectacle.”
Mr. Lamont [...]

Thanks to a recently translated 1700-year-old papyrus manuscript, Western culture may lose its best shorthand for betrayal and treachery:
An early Christian manuscript, including the only known text of the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years, and it portrays Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer of Jesus but as his favored disciple and willing [...]

My neighbors are throwing a wake tonight for one of Saturday’s shooting victims. So far, the Seattle Police Department seems more inclined to sift and analyze than panic. On the other hand, the Seattle Times Editorial Board senses a market opportunity and weighs in all Solon-like and calm:
…this event forces every parent of a teen [...]

CAFE standards (short for Corporate Average Fuel Economy) are the bane of every environmentalists’ existence. By averaging out fuel economy across a vehicle manufacturer’s fleet of offerings, Toyota, for example, can offer a hybrid and an SUV, and the average fuel economy is what counts.
Cascadia Scorecard points us to a New York [...]