“For all you liberals out there,” as my cousin Joan says, “if you can’t get Air America Radio
on the radio, you can get it on the computer. (Just click the link to stream
the broadcast.)
Makes sense, especially for all those liberals and conservatives who don’t live in the six major
metropolitan areas that can tune in to Air America Radio — New York, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, Ore., and the Inland Empire, Calif.
(Believe it or not, that’s what they call the inland bedroom communities in part of southern
California: the Inland Empire. It sounds like a developer’s fantasy. I guess it’s no more pretentious
than calling the rural reaches of northern Vermont the Northeast Kingdom, a nickname that stuck
because George D. Aiken, a U.S. Senator from Vermont for 33 years, dreamed it up.)
