Very interesting Jeanette Winterson take on Henry Miller in the Times Book Review. I suppose my problem with Miller isn't that he was a misogynist per se. Philip Roth is a misogynist and he's one of my favorite living authors. It's that Miller was a...
Author: Erik Loomis
The highly respected historian and radical Jesse Lemisch has taken the American Historical Association to task for its unwillingness to deal with the field's employment crisis. Lemisch compares the AHA's.
If there's one thing more frustrating to environmentalists than the reluctance of the government to subsidize clean energy production, I don't know what it is. Not only is it central.
I found the comment section on my bayou post of yesterday interesting for a couple of reasons, including that saving the marshes is an impossible task. This really is not true. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have shaped the river to satisfy a number...
Outside of the larger spectre of climate change, the biggest environmental crisis in the United States is the melting of southern Louisiana into the ocean.* A combination of diking the.
Looks like the Republican Party has another state politician sure to appeal to the wingunttia masses. This time it's in North Carolina, where state Rep. Larry Pittman is calling for.
I'm not saying that any of you didn't already understand the deep-seated racism in Tea Party members. But if you needed any additional evidence, please see the legislative goals of the Tennessee Tea Party, which includes outrage over history classes teaching that the Founding Fathers...
Appropriate given Wolf Blitzer's increasingly embarrassing existence on CNN, watch him score what might be the lowest score ever on Celebrity Jeopardy. Also, Andy Richter is a beast. Not that.
It's hard not to be bouncing off the ceiling for the chance to make fun of Charles Murray's new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. I really.
Megan McArdle delivers a typically hackish column on Obama's SOTU address. After noting her TV appearance with such bright bulbs as John Stossel and Gary Johnson, she proceeds to get after Obama for his nostalgic view of the economy. I'm not going to quote at...
How do you celebrate your 52nd birthday if you are Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Toga party of course. Via
The general tenor of the labor community is that Obama was typically tepid on labor issues in his State of the Union. He mentioned in passing a union workplace in.