Last month, SEK brought up the racism of The Searchers, which I argued was as racist as Birth of a Nation. I decided to rewatch the film. It had been a couple of years after all. Both of my major contentions about the film were...
Author: Erik Loomis
Dylan Matthews' list of ways to reduce violence without gun control starts with one that cannot be stated strongly enough. The decline of lead exposure over the past decades is.
Today is Earth Day, also known as the one day a year Americans pretend that they care about the environment. In 1970, Earth Day seemed like the beginning of a.
The Arctic is truly the final fishing frontier. Like in the entire history of the human race.
I'm all for the FCC being completely fine with David Ortiz saying "fuck" in his speech before the Red Sox game yesterday. On the other hand, it would be nice.
Does it go too far to call the West Fertilizer Corporation a terrorist corporation for its actions that led to the explosion that has killed at least 14 people so.
As we should all have expected, the Paraguayan quasi-coup that forced Fernando Lugo out of office seems to have worked out pretty well for the oligarchs, likely ushering them back into power and making the poor cynical that any political movement could improve their lot.
Principled conservative Ted Cruz calls federal relief for Hurricane Sandy pork, wants federal relief after fertilizer plant explosion in Texas.
Learning about the oldest existing dead body used for medical experiments does not make me feel any less queasy about medieval Europe, but it is most certainly quite interesting. I'm.
Ornette Coleman's 1980 attempt to put together an all-white cover band of his own songs in order to create an audience for his music, since white people were more willing to listen to white musicians than black musicians is interesting, odd, and a little sad.
This is great for anyone who rolls their eyes at celebrity architects and the absurd non-functioning buildings they construct. Celebrated Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava (whose WTC PATH station is interminably.
Minnesota Republicans are up in arms because the Minnesota Historical Society wants to commission a bust of Harry Blackmun. Why are they going crazy? Because Blackmun was one of the.