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My Poli-Sci-Fi Radio co-host, Steve Benen, wrote a short piece for Variety that’s out today (coinciding with the beginning of BSG season 4.5) about the fact that Battlestar Galactica is the most overtly political TV show since The West Wing.  He writes… no program in recent memory has covered such explicitly political ground. It features [...]

Found here via a Chuck Olsen Tweet.

I’ve been thinking about this “war on Christmas” garbage today. I think there are a couple of things going on that are resulting in this stupidity and I’d like to throw these thoughts out there for you to consider this holiday season… First, there is an actual fight that is being waged, though it’s not [...]

God bless The Uptake’s coverage of the MN Senate race…

Lots of folks have been making some great recommendations to the Obama transition team via their transition website, change.gov. Lawrence Lessig and a cabal of Internet Big Thinkers suggested some Principals for an Open Transition, public.resource.org has Five Suggestions for Change, and loads of people have been leaving comments and applying for jobs and in [...]

AlexC was at tonight’s ill-fated airing of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio and shot some photos. I say “ill-fated” because while it was a good episode with a lively discussion, a technical glitch resulted in the show not being recorded, so there will be no podcast episode this week. Fortunately, this photographic evidence exists to prove we were [...]

Once again, little Vermont is trying to save America from itself. As of now, Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders — the two senators from Vermont — are the only two US senators saying that they will vote to strip the chairmanship of the homeland security and government affairs senate committee from Joe Lieberman. Lieberman not [...]

As MSNBC cut between New York and Chicago and Kenya and Atlanta last night following the 11:00 p.m. official call for Obama, was I the only one thinking of the montage of victory celebrations at the end of Return of the Jedi? At the risk of stretching analogies between the Bush administration and the Galactic [...]