Although I’m somewhat reluctant to admit this, I probably listen to more talk radio than most 70-year old Teabaggers. Because of the nature of my job, I have several hours alone each day at work, performing tasks that, to put it mildly, leave my brain less than fully engaged, and the three-hour shows, punctuated by [...]
Listening to the Ed Schultz Show today on the radio at work, I was enjoying the discussion brought forth by substitute host Norman Goldman, when he opened the show by asking listeners, “What do you want from your government, and how would you like to pay for it?” The question was drawn from the debate [...]
People are often puzzled as to why I read, almost exclusively, nonfiction books. The reason they find this so odd, in part, is because they perceive nonfiction to be the sort of dry, boring, graph and statistic-filled stuff they were forced to read in college, or the textbooks through which they plodded in high school, [...]
Just for fun, I went wandering around the tubes to see how that teabagging thing is going, having found the last one so hilariously compelling. I didn’t bother to check if there was a local event here on the Fourth, because there apparently wasn’t one. Whew, that was close, because it turns out that the [...]
When Air America announced its intention to become the lone liberal voice in talk radio, to begin to counter the utter dominance of that medium by the Right, way back in 2003, it was music to my ears. Working often alone, building things and tearing them down, not necessarily in that order, some aural stimulation [...]
Free Speech, that curiously American phenomenon, has been reinterpreted in such ways that it’s become, well, not exactly free. You see, the kind of speech that still revels in and enjoys its freedom has an awful lot of paid sponsors, while the kind that just pops out without any corporate backing tends to be retaliated [...]
UPDATE: The waterboarding segment was featured, as I’d hoped, on Countdown tonight. (link in comments) Not that I think this occurrence was directly attributable to the Hag… For weeks now, Keith Olbermann has been beating the drum to have Sean Hannity waterboarded, to a degree that almost seemed undignified, that is until today. You [...]
I’ve lived in central Portland all of my life, and downtown much of that, and during that time, I’ve attended innumerable rallies, protests, and whatnot. I still remember last fall, when a friend and I were contemplating going to the Obama rally, hours hence, and from my balcony noticed a line forming below. It [...]
Sounding rather like a cartoon villain, Rush Limbaugh just confidently assured his audience of the myriad ways Democrats, liberals, and others were going to be persecuted, humiliated, and eliminated, once they were righteously driven from power by real Americans and a vengeful, oppressive government would make them pay dearly, apparently led by him. You tell [...]