It's a tough competition. I figure you have three candidates. First is the long-standing champion, James Inhofe, arguably the dumbest person to sit in the Senate for a long, long time. Second, is the relative newcomer Ron Johnson. Johnson is so out of his league...
Author: Erik Loomis
Hope you all are having as good a Saturday night as Zevon did when writing "Carmelita."
How the deuce am I not on the NRA enemies list? What the heck does a C-list blogger have to do to get on this list, use common metaphors that.
Marjorie Childress reports on a New Mexico lawmaker opposing right-to-know legislation on fracking: “It’s gonna fuel litigation, radical fringe groups, who don’t understand the process of what we do and how we do it,” Rep. Don Bratton, R-Lea County, said about HB 136, a bill...
U.S. carbon emissions keep slowly falling, down to levels not seen since 1994, despite a lot more people in this country. I'm probably a bit more skeptical about the long-term.
As I've stated before, state and local elections are arguably more important than national elections. Republicans understand this in ways that the Democratic base doesn't seem to.
Labor Notes has an interesting survey of working-class literature, asking organizers and activists about their favorite class-conscious novels. Admittedly, when I became a professor I stopped reading novels. This is literally the single biggest thing I don't like about my job. I feel incredibly guilty...
Back to my favorite topic. As everyone should know by this point, there's absolutely no logical or historical basis for the idea that people have the right to walk around.
Terry Allen has a useful overview of the unnecessary health risks of clothing production experienced by largely female workforces in the developing world: These expendable workers, mostly young women, cycle.
What an utterly wonderful set of color photos from Paris in the early 20th century. I love black and white photos and black and white cinema but seeing these things in color really changes one's perspective.
One of the last links to World War II-era popular culture has passed.
I know that this is kind of Unionism 101, but since we as a nation are now in a remedial state when it comes to understanding why we need labor.