Month: February 2012
In 1980, the USS Nimitz sails out of Pearl Harbor and into a strange storm. On the other side, the crew finds itself in December 6, 1941. After coming to.
Thanks to a deep desire to nap and a DVR that's threatening to delete everything I want to watch, I spent a few hours this afternoon watching the Heat and.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight, when I.W.W. speakers were routinely denied their First Amendment rights for speaking in public about workers' rights..
If there was ever a player poorly served by fixation with the batting average stat... Exactly two months after signing a minor-league deal with the Washington Nationals, Mike Cameron has decided to call.
Thinking about Anthony Comstock and Gilded Age sexuality this week, I was reminded of the woman Comstock destroyed, the fascinating feminist and free-love advocate, Victoria Woodhull. Born Victoria Claflin in.
This Tyler Cowen nonsense is a classic example of a conservative rhetorical technique that is particularly annoying. I'm not sure what to call it -- the strawman tu quoque? It's.
Just a couple of brief observations: 1. If Paul Babeu had been a member of a political party that advocated treating gay men as human, he might not have had.
Ta-Nehisi Coates points us to this President's Day question, and also gives us the right answer. I've discussed this before, but Grant is extremely underrated. Teaching the Presidency this semester,.