Author Archives: Sinfonian

I don’t know whether it’s too early in December for a year-in-review show, but as my travel-and-holiday schedule is likely to preclude my availability for another Monday show for the remainder of 2009, this is it for the year. And therefore, it’s a perfect time for Blast Off! Radio’s traditional year-end extravaganza! Last year, there [...]

We’re still more than a year away from the 2010 election, but things are really beginning to heat up here in America’s Wang™ despite the cooler temperatures. While the gubernatorial race between state CFO Alex Sink and state attorney general Bill McCollum hasn’t really hit its stride yet, there are plenty of fireworks to keep [...]

It’s been a big week both in Florida and nationally for Democrats and especially the progressive (or liberal, if like me you’re still okay with that label) side of the party. Today on Blast Off! Radio, we’ll take a look back at The Week (And Weekend) That Was with a veritable plethora of interesting and [...]

In the last week or so, we’re seeing some curious behavior from certain Democrats in Congress. Formerly a largely meek and subservient species, they’re beginning to show — finally — that they’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. And by “it,” I mean the unwarranted power of Republicans to control debate [...]

Considering that the United States is pretty clearly split more or less evenly on ideological grounds, while polls repeatedly show that Americans — even many right-of-center ones — favor health care reform, same-sex marriage, and other so-called “liberal” ideas, it’s somewhat puzzling to me that the Radical Right still controls so much of what we [...]

Did you ever have one of those days when you just weren’t sure what you should do? I mean, there’s no one BIG thing on the agenda, so you just kind of pick up the threads of a bunch of little things hanging out there … Well, that’s kind of what today’s Blast Off! Radio [...]

You may already be aware, but because of Blast Off!‘s hiatus (described in greater detail here), Blast Off! Radio also will be taking a break for a couple of months. I have every intention of bringing back the sucky radio show along with the sucky blog in mid-August, but until then, I simply must focus [...]

It is, I think, difficult to strike the appropriate tone for a webradio show on Memorial Day that is at once unabashedly snarky, generally pacifist, nearly always irreverent, and proudly hyper-liberal. But I firmly believe, contrary to the opinions of some who criticized me after the Pensacola Tea Party last month (and others), that it [...]