The main musical story in my life in the last couple of weeks is the discovery of Cocaine and Rhinestones, a podcast on the history of country music by the son of David Allan Coe. It's pretty great. I've listened to about half the episodes...
Author: Erik Loomis
In 1997, I was traveling in Sumatra and I ended up at this camp where they did orangutan rehabilitation for released into the wild. You could watch the morning feeding,.
The conventional wisdom is that there is nothing politicians are going to do about gun control because it's such a hot button topic that it would be political suicide to.
This is the grave of Lucy Parsons. Despite her gravestone claiming she was born in 1859, Lucy Gonzalez was probably born around 1853, probably in Texas. She was born a slave. Parsons later claimed to be entirely Mexican and Native American heritage and not African-American....
One of my hobbyhorses is how frustrating it is that our public discussion of race in this country exists primarily on a black-white binary. At least at one university I.
The depravity of our fascist immigration police knows no bounds. Paul Frame describes his marriage to Jose “Ivan” Nuñez Martinez, 37, as yin and yang, opposites attracting. Frame is 15.
If you had told me even 5 years ago that Republicans in 2018 would be openly moving toward attacking the direct election of senators, even someone as pessimistic as I am would not have believed it. But that is what we are seeing. With Republicans...
On February 15, 1988, environmentalists stormed the gate of International Paper in Jay, Maine as part of a solidarity action with workers on strike, attempting to shut it down. This.
This is the grave of Paul Revere. No, not that one. Paul Revere Dick was born in Harvard, Nebraska in 1938. At some point, his family moved to Idaho. In.
Since commenters need continual input that Democrats are likely to do well in 2018 if we work hard or they go into full Chicken Little mode, here's another piece of good news from tonight's special election in Florida: Democrats just flipped their 36th state legislative...
From the beginning of the national parks, one concern environmentalists have had is turning the nation's most beautiful places into over-developed and cheesy tourist attractions, or to not be protected.
Get in a conversation with any group of professors and the topic of teaching evaluations will come up. Specifically, what will come up is that teaching evaluations serve as an.