If you’re having trouble getting Air America, try listening to the stream from the Portland affiliate here.

It’s kind of hit and miss so far. While I’m enjoying it on the whole, the Ann-Coulter-locked-in-a-closet bit is really fucking lame. What is really funny though, is Bunsen’s up-to-the-minute coverage with little tidbits like this:

12:55 pm: …Note to Bunsen fans under the age of 40: Spiro T. Agnew was Vice President to Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was President of the United States from 1920-1974, until he was caught visiting China.

Franken points out the Kerrey lost part of his leg in military service. But all talk about injuries suffered in defense of our great Nation must begin and end with the crafty German soldier who crazy-glued that pen into Bob Dole’s hand during WWII.

Eat Your Heart Out, Wonkette

Amid news that the White House will be allowing Condoleezza Rice to testify under oath before the 9/11 panel, I’ve received a hot tip from an anonymous Washington insider:

This is more than just a rumor, it’s a true leak:

Take it upon yourself to go viral with this.

It could be bullshit, but if Rice ends up taking a fall for the administration, you heard it here first.

If it’s after 12pm when you read this, you’d better be listening to Air America.

If you missed Ralph Nader’s appearance on Crossfire yesterday, you ought to read the transcript. It’s a surprisingly well-rounded discussion of his candidacy.

I just don’t have anything to say about this:

Associated Press Television News pictures showed one man beating a charred corpse with a metal pole. Others tied a yellow rope to a body, hooked it to a car and dragged it down the main street of town. Two blackened and mangled corpses were hung from a green iron bridge across the Euphrates.

All Kinds of Stuff:

Where’s that fatted calf? Neal Pollack returns to blogging.

Noam Chomsky has started a blog. [Link via Rob]

The latest USA Today poll has Bush with 51% and Kerry with 47%. However, the really interesting thing is when Ralph Nader is thrown in to the mix, he takes 4%, leaving Kerry with 45% and Bush with 49%. Nader is “taking away” as many votes from Bush as he is Kerry. If Kerry can get his shit together, Republicans could quite possibly be rehashing four-year-old Gore-supporter quotes come November.

Air America, the liberal radio network, starts tomorrow. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that it will be really great. Don’t forget, you can listen online if it’s not available in your market.

This game is addictive. [Link via Black Table]

When I first saw the trailer for White Girls, I thought it had to be a joke. I can’t be real. It just can’t.

On the other hand, Dodgeball might end up being kind of funny, but I liked it better the first time I saw it, when it was called Baseketball.

The new Jim Jarmusch movie Coffee and Cigarettes features

Iggy Pop and Tom Waits

Bill Murray, RZA and GZA

Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright

Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee and Steve Buscemi

Cate Blanchett and Cate Blanchett

Meg White and Jack White

Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan

drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. It will be great. Watch the trailer here.

This film should in way be confused with the superb Paul Thomas Anderson short film Cigarettes and Coffee.

It should also not be confused with the upcoming musical Romance & Cigarettes, written and directed by John Turturro, produced by the Coen brothers and starring James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken and Mandy Moore, though that’ll probably be really good too.

[Link via Rob]

Gays? Check!

Women? Check!

And with that, the Bush Administration began working on legislation to limit the amount of melanin one person can legally possess. Children everywhere–be they born, unborn, grown-up, dead, imagined, rich, very rich, sort-of rich, Baptist, Pentacostal, very Baptist, white, off-white, eggshell, self-hating light-skinned Hispanic or even a little bit Asian–just got a whole lot safer.