Per Amazon, here are their editors' choices for the top ten books of 2008: 1. The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher 2. Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg 3. Nixonland by Rick Perlstein 4. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins 5. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 6. The Likeness by Tana French 7. Serena by Ron Rash 8. So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger 9. The Lazarus Project by Aleksander ...

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) I just loves me some Paul Krugman. In a just world, a man of his credentials (hello?!?! Nobel Prize in Economics?) would have far more weight than the bozos on the business channels still touting Friedman economics as the iceberg crashes into the bow and the water rises to their necks. But sadly, the media still gives equal weight to the failed policies that got us in ...

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) Rachel Maddow shows how ridiculously easy the Feds have made it for financial institutions to apply for relief, so much so that she's tempted to create "The Rachel Maddow Show Bank Holding Company" to get in on the action. It also shows the rank hypocrisy of Republicans now screaming that the bailout of the auto industry must come with strings attached, since they felt no similar compunction ...

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) When you have questions about how upset the gay community is over the choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration, who better to ask than equally anti-gay homophobe Mike Huckabee? Predictably, Huckabee's response is a big ol' heaping cup of "so what?": VAN SUSTEREN: Let me jump to another topic, which you probably weren’t expecting, is that President-elect Obama has chosen Rick ...