This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there's good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring out punishments for violators with no rhyme or reason. The system exploits the labor of...
Author: Erik Loomis
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real.
As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me.
Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education. They sought factors on college campuses that help lead...
A lot of books about environmental problems tend to follow a pattern that looks something like this: 1. Talk about how screwed up everything is, going into detail about a.
Adam Gopnik is upset that his Cape Cod vacation got interrupted by a storm that didn't live up to the worst case scenario: Obviously, this was a big storm with.
You know what I didn't grow up with in Oregon? Hurricanes. Or tornadoes. Or floods. Or droughts. Or blizzards. Or below zero temperatures. Just soft rain, fog, and summer sun. Weather in the east basically sucks. And I don't even mind humidity. Anyway, figure we...
So the Drive-By Truckers have released a greatest hits album, although they've never had a hit per se. I'm not quite sure what the market is for this. They are.
Great little piece in the Times on the Los Angeles River. The L.A. River has been forgotten about for most of Los Angeles' history, and certainly since the city stole.
As a man trying to raise his child as a vegetarian, David Sirota dislikes fake meat products: ...the next time you go shopping, imagine what a kid gleans from veggie burgers, veggie bacon, veggie sausage patties, veggie hot dogs, Tofurky and all the other similar...
I meant to comment on this a couple of days ago, before I went away on a brief vacation, but I didn't have time. So even though the news is.
Jeffery Hirsch savages Joe Nocera's worthless column from yesterday, where Nocera says that Democrats cost the nation jobs because the NLRB is forcing Boeing to stop retaliating against its unions.