Good times in Hawaii: This "odd animal sighting" could be bad news for Hawaii's native wildlife: a five-foot long boa contrictor recently ended up as roadkill along Hawaii's Pali Highway. The thing that makes this odd is that it should be impossible to run over...
Author: Erik Loomis
The comment thread on Edward Bland's The Cry of Jazz was more contentious than I thought it would be, since several commenters basically called this early black nationalist a racist.
The campaign poster of Pittsburgh City Council candidate Jim Wudarczyk: The inspiration for this brilliance: Really, it's about time we saw Red Scare era political imagery become hip again. A.
What a surprise that the herbal supplement/alternative medicine industry is filled with hucksters, scam artists, and grifters, the likes of which American medicine hasn't seen since the days of patent medicine before the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration in 1906 For the study,...
So I hear Dengue Fever is coming to my town and I hope it is this: Unfortunately, it is this: This past summer, Aedes aegypti—the invasive African mosquito best known.
Reuters has an interesting piece on how Volkswagen's previous attempt to operate a union factory in the U.S. failed and how this relates to its attempts to institute a German-like.
Goodbye to the western black rhino.
Who is having trouble registering to vote under the new Texas voter ID law? None other than former Speaker of the House Jim Wright. Now 90, he doesn't have a.
In the face of Texas A&M painting its team name in the end zone red, white, and blue, Northwestern has upped the ante, going with full on flag uniforms. Clearly.
Why do I spend my time watching French cigarette commercials from the 30s? I do it for you of course.
I should avoid the crack of the excerpts from Halperin and Heilemann's new book about the presidential campaign. Such books bring out the worst in the political class--the gossip, the.
Mike Konczal usefully summarizes Gordon Lafer's new report on the Tea Party's class warfare. Although the media and most blogs have focused on Tea Party legislators' work to undermine voting.