A special day for Republican hypocrisy on food stamps. In the Senate, you have our old friend, Louisiana's David Vitter: Vitter presented the bill as prohibiting “convicted murderers, rapists, and pedophiles” from food stamp benefits. And in general those are the categories – murder, rape,...
Author: Erik Loomis
I love classic capitalist propaganda. Take for example, 1956's "Destination Earth." A cartoon produced by the American Petroleum Institute, it shows that oil + competition=getting rid of that dastardly Stalin.
My Catholic friends, I think it is time to go old-school next Lent. In addition to disease, the European settlers also brought Catholicism with them, and successfully converted a large.
Modern Farmer with a long look at a major problem with the Greek yogurt industry--endless amounts of very gross whey that is quite toxic to riparian ecosystems. New York produced 150 million gallons of acid whey last year from its Greek yogurt industry. Dealing with...
It's no secret that the United States has an aging and increasingly dangerous infrastructure. An embarrassment compared to Europe or Japan, Americans have decided that it is far more important.
Roy Hogsed's 1948 version of "Cocaine Blues" Country Music History 101 teaches everyone that Johnny Cash did not write that song, though he did a good version of it. I.
Mike Elk has a really great piece on the 1-day federal contract workers strike. It's simple. First, our government should not be allowed to contract with employers who have a history of labor law violations. Second, all workers toiling for the federal government, whether directly...
I share the general opinion of many that our industrial food system is in crisis. But I generally disagree as to the real problems. Dislike of something like GMOs (or.
Stephen Greenhouse on how American retailers like Wal-Mart and Gap are opposing proposed regulatory plans for factory conditions that produce clothing precisely because they might be legally binding and thus.
Atheists need more Oklahoma tornado survivor Rebecca Vitsmun, less sexist jerks like Richard Dawkins.
ESPN is a great corporation. It is ungodly profitable. It creates a mere 43% of Disney's total operating income. Think about that. All of Disney, including Disneyland and everything else.
As I talked about yesterday, there's a 1-day strike today of non-unionized government contract workers who make low wages and who SEIU ultimately wants to organize. In ye olden days.