As you may have heard, a fertilizer plant has exploded in the town of West, Texas. This town, the Czech cultural capital of Texas and home of a mighty fine kolache at the Czech Stop, not to mention outfielder and stolen base maven Scott Podsednik,...
Author: Erik Loomis
Robin Williams can be annoying, but this is a wonderful reminiscence of the great Jonathan Winters.
Dear People Who Hold My Future in Your Hands, When you distanced yourself from this lowly history professor last fall for daring to use a violent metaphor against moral monster.
I guess the answer to what goes best with beef is supposed to be Jello, but the real answer is whiteness. I also so want some Western Roundup Salad, the name of the recipe at the bottom.
A terrible day what with this horrifying Boston violence. I have nothing to offer at this point except for that. And an attempt at lightheartedness that might make people feel.
Despite the violence fetish of some leftists, the reality is that left-wing terrorism has declined to almost nothing in the United States since 1980. We do face severe domestic terrorist.
You might think the Cypriot banking system is little more than a corporate off-shore scam. And you'd be at least partly right. But the U.S. has some pretty special state banking laws and tax schemes as well: Hundreds of thousands of businesses are incorporated in...
When I was going through my hate campaign from the NRA, there was a weird set of internet anarchists also hoping I would lose my job. Calling myself and others.
Frank Gaffney is working his racist magic in Oklahoma, convincing the Oklahoma legislature (a willing group no doubt) to pass an anti-Sharia law by enormous margins, thus protecting the good.
I'm all for historians entering public debates. I am less enthused when they advocate utterly terrible ideas in major publications, such as University of Texas historian Jeremi Suri, who calls for the United States to bomb North Korea. Hard to see what could go wrong...
In discussing one legend, Jackie Robinson, the writer Roger Angell reminds us what a legend he is as well, whether writing about baseball or his life.
A funny one.