If there was one place where you would not expect to find sexism, it's in the awarding of the National Humanities Medals. Given that the choices for these awards are sometimes on merit and sometimes political (seriously, during the Bush years, winners included Shelby Steele,...
Author: Erik Loomis
The New York Times' Disunion series continues to be absolutely fantastic, even if it doesn't get the publicity it did when the series started. And I've been reading Kevin Levin's.
I was doing some rather pointless research on Chester A. Arthur this morning. On his Wikipedia page, I found this: William Arthur's frequent moves would later form the basis for.
This ain't good: A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of dollars. And you thought Santorum was gross. But seriously, what...
Read about the new crime wave sweeping America's tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on.
On this date in 1937, the Flint Sit-Down strike ended after General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers at the bargaining agent for GM employees. This titanic victory legitimized the.
How does a guy like Skip Bayless keep working? Actually, I guess I know. He combines pugnacity with a complete lack of shame. I guess that makes good TV for a company like ESPN that has no interest in accountability or intelligence. In a related...
It would be challenging to find a Democratic Party figure I loathe more than Larry Summers. There are so many reasons. Here's one more: Prior to joining the Obama administration.
Over the past two weeks, port truck drivers in Seattle have refused to work for many reasons, ranging from very low pay to terrible working conditions. The Sierra Club has.
So it seems that Frank Gehry is designing a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall. Eisenhower's family is angry because, gasp, one of the scenes shows Dewey as a poor, barefoot kid. My God! Rather than portray him as "cornpone-in-chief" as one critic...
The lesson: Conservatives will always find a way to pin the blame for any issue on women.
Kim Morgan has a list up of the top 10 old movies she saw for the first time in 2011. It's an interesting list. The only one I've seen is.