As we cut down our last tropical forests, decimating the lungs of the planet, at least a few people are bravely trying to stop it. In Brazil those activists are routinely killed. And now they are in Cambodia as well. Although since I now understand...
Author: Erik Loomis
Your 31 pro-rape Republicans: John Barrasso WY Roy Blunt MO John Boozman AR Richard M. Burr NC Saxby Chambliss GA Tom Coburn OK Thad Cochran MS John Cornyn TX Jim.
And the Obama Administration caves on the child labor rule for farmers I discussed here.
This is how conservatives see environmentalists: There is so much about this that is remarkable. On a personal level, I love that the spotted owl still drives conservatives nuts 20 years after the issue was settled. It also increases my concern that the killing of...
Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, has died. One of the most influential books of the environmental movement, Ecotopia tells the story of a secessionist Northwest that has committed itself to.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for everyone's favorite game--"Which Republican Governor is the Biggest Asshat?" I'm your host, Erik Loomis, and today, we are going to tour the nation visiting.
Jamelle Bouie: Gerson says that the terms of the debate this fall will be between “Reform Conservatism” and “Obama’s surprisingly unreconstructed liberalism.” Now is not the place to define Obama’s liberalism, but even if it were, this is wrong. The 2012 election isn’t a debate...
Michael Bloomberg, sensible American and our only hope to return from the brink of something: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vetoed a City Council bill that would have raised the minimum.
Here we see example #520 of villagers gnashing their teeth and rending their garments when Democratic voters elect real Democrats over the kind of Republican-lite Democrats political elites think they.
And you thought I was going to write about Leno.... Sarah Goodyear has a nice piece at the Atlantic about the invention of jaywalking. Essentially, cars were seen as murderous killers in the early 20th century. States and municipalities passed a series of laws placing...
I was very happy to see President Obama use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Fort Ord National Monument in California, protecting some of the last wild land in.
I've been thinking a lot about Levon Helm and The Band over the past week. A few final thoughts. I've been really impressed with the outpouring of grief for the.