Subject2Discussion is an internet radio program I'm on every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. CST. Apparently, the podcast of last week's program was downloaded over 6,800 times. So if you want to listen tonight, just click here and you'll either launch an audio application or you'll download a file that you then click on and THEN it launches an audio player. I'm on a Mac so it's … [Read more...] about Political Internet Radio Tonight

My latest salvo in the "political affirmative action" debate is up. … [Read more...] about Another Round, Please

According to MSNBC, "Atheist Agenda" (a student organization at the U. of Texas San Antonio) has offered to swap smut for holy books brought in. … [Read more...] about Trade Your Bible for Porn?

TNR's Ryan Lizza makes the case (I think it requires registration, but if you're not already onboard with The New Republic, you should be). … [Read more...] about Obama ’08?

A friend who attends McGill University asked me to blog about The Montreal Massacre, which happened on this date in 1989. I had never heard of the event until he told me about it, but basically a man who felt that "the feminists" were responsible for him not getting into engineering school went to a local university and systematically gunned down all the female students he … [Read more...] about Montreal Massacre

Hey all, the site has been down for pretty much the entire day now, so I apologize that the links I put up today aren't working. We're having server issues and hopefully will be back up soon. In the meantime...here's a story about a different type of beatdown. UPDATE: Donklephant is back up! UPDATE: Back down again. *sigh* … [Read more...] about Donklephant Beatdown

A former student of mine at the University of Toronto, Hajera Khaja, writes a blog called Finding Neverland. She describes it as "[t]he nonsensical ramblings of a self-defined slightly crazy, slightly delusional Muslim". Maybe, maybe not. I'll let you decide. But if you want a break from the political arena that I tend to inhabit, if you want to explore the poetic possibilities … [Read more...] about Faith and love in Neverland

Yet more lies and damned lies at the Pentagon. Yes, democracy is messy, but does it need to be so blatantly phony? … [Read more...] about Lying to the people of Iraq

Isn't it truly a wonderful thing? Now we can get on with our lives... … [Read more...] about Dave and Oprah kiss and make up

Once again, the truth threatens to undermine President Bush's grotesque attempts to spin the Iraq War in the direction of his peculiarly faith-based sense of reality. For it looks like those Iraqi security forces in whom we have been told to trust, those wonderfully well-trained forces who will take over for the U.S. when Bush withdraws American forces for partisan political … [Read more...] about So much for those Iraqi security forces

Connecticut's most consistent maverick, Former Governor Lowell Weicker, is tinkering with running against Senator Joe Lieberman — and it won't be the first time:Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. on Monday criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's continued support of the war in Iraq and said that if no candidate challenged the senator on the issue in the 2006 election, he … [Read more...] about It Could Be Weicker VS Lieberman Again In Connecticut

On Monday, John Kerry called on President Bush to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, according to The Raw Story: "The President owes it to our troops serving in Iraq to remove Secretary Rumsfeld and replace him at the Pentagon with a Defense Secretary who understands the situation on the ground in Iraq and who will advance, not undermine, American values around the … [Read more...] about Behold Secretary Lieberman!

Stressed? Need to relax? Why not visit a wine spa? … [Read more...] about Excuse me, is that Merlot all over your face?

Just the mere mention of that word makes men shudder, but recently a very high profile blogger got one and...wait for it...wait for it.......he blogged about it. Oh, you know you want to find out more. … [Read more...] about Colonoscopy

It's compelling, different and I agree with him. Find out why. … [Read more...] about Wesley Clark’s Plan For Iraq

It's different, compelling and I completely disagree with it. Find out why... … [Read more...] about Dean’s Plan For Iraq

Amid a flurry of news about their secret prisons being in Europe, the CIA has decided to move their prisoners to Northern Africa. From ABC News:Dec. 5, 2005 — Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania. Current and former CIA officers speaking … [Read more...] about CIA’s Secret European Prisons Moved

This weekend, Congressman Sherrod Brown officially launched his bid for the Democratic senatorial nomination in the state of Ohio. As a part of this push, Brown wanted to not only to address Ohio voters but also speak with the entire blogosphere. On Monday afternoon, Brown and I spoke over the telephone about a number of issues related both to the general election and the … [Read more...] about A Conversation with Sherrod Brown

I absolutely love piano rocker Ben Folds, having seen him a couple years ago in Oregon on his solo tour. But he appears to have lost all good judgment, agreeing to play a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's re-election campaign. The wisdom of boycotting artists with loudly-expressed political views you dislike aside, it's just a dumb idea for artists to get involved in politics … [Read more...] about Rock star does fundraiser for Hillary Clinton

In addition to Joe's excellent commentary, you can find my first thoughts on the DeLay ruling at The Debate Link. … [Read more...] about DeLay Ruling