I'm grading AP US History exams this week. It's not a particularly fun process. Most of the tests are not very good. But it drives me INSANE that the other graders find it just so damn funny that students are confused and say ridiculous things...
Author: Erik Loomis
In the comments to yesterday's post on German Civil War reenactors, people mentioned Germans' love of westerns. This reminded of the remarkable box set released by First Run Features a.
This is a day where death has dominated the headlines--Jack Kevorkian, the American economy, Marshall Matt Dillon. But I want to say a special word about the recently deceased Geronimo.
Yoni Applebaum has an interesting piece on the popularity of reenacting the U.S. Civil War in Germany. While one might poo-poo any real analysis of this as being just Gone with the Wind romanticism without any political meaning, I'd be skeptical to agree. As one...
Over at the United Steelworkers blog, Dean Baker unloads on Alan Simpson and the idea that Simpson knows anything useful about Social Security: Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson has been.
I'd like to start my first post at LGM by thanking everyone else here for asking me to join the blog. I've been blogging in obscurity at Alterdestiny since 2004.
The decline in affirmative action over the last several years should be a major cause for concern for anyone interested in social justice. We often hear from rightwingers how affirmative action is actually reverse racism against qualified whites, something that many white men and even...