The Liberal Avenger: Left of the Dial

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"At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will. "

"Let's do the sign of the cross. It'll make us feel real boss."

- Skafish

"Look, can we all at least agree on one thing -- if the 'I didn't do it' administration is re-coronated, that come November 3, EVERYTHING IS THEIR FUCKING FAULT."

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't now, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."

- George W. Bush, USA Today, 08/21/2001

"There are no mirrors in Bush's church."

- Tim Appelo, Seattle Weekly, 12/08/2004

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends."

- Maya Angelou

"To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?"

- An Appeal to Global Conscience (via j a c k *)

"How much productivity has been wasted, not reducing our dependence on oil, but to entice us to buy more that is made with, and which consumes for its continuance - oil. It would be as if a man who had been poisoned, rather than reaching for the emetic, reaches for another dose of the poison."

- Stirling Newberry, So We Want a Revolution, 03/18/2005


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Friday, April 01, 2005

Left of the Dial

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Dialing it down

My wife and I watched Left of the Dial tonight. It is a documentary about the time around the "go live" launch of Air America radio. We both really enjoyed it.

I must admit that while I am an admirer of Al Franken and Marc Maron and Janeane Garafalo and Chuck D and Randi Rhodes, I have yet to listen to Air America even once. This has less to do with my being a disloyal liberal than the fact that I am no longer a commuter and that I really, really love my iPod. If I am in my car I am more likely to be listening to Arabic hip-hop than anything else. I am indeed an news junkie but my information fix comes to me almost exclusively over the internet wire.

Left of the Dial is great because it shows that the people involved with Air America are real, ordinary people who believe in what they are doing. "Ordinary" doesn't mean that they aren't exceptional... It means that they put their pants on one leg at a time like the rest of us do, and they know that. They don't strike me as being full of themselves (unlike a certain OxyContin abusing bag of wind from the other end of the spectrum).

Having seen the documentary and having heard so many positive things about Air America over the past year from my blogging compatriots, I'm going to make an effort to start tuning in. I would love to hear Atrios on the air sometime, too. How often is he on?

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