Month: April 2012
So I walk into the house, turn on the TV, and say to DJW (who's in Lexington this weekend) "Oh, hey; we get to watch the Red Sox bullpen blow.
Burn in hell.
And doing it against an offensive powerhouse like the Mariners is all the more impressive!
I've marveled at the silliness of this silly argument before, but Will Wilkinson does a good job of demolishing it.
Relentlessly, the calendar grinds toward the event which could tear this blog apart, the bicentenary of the War of 1812. The loyal American contributors to this blog will surely commemorate.
Jane McAlevey has a great piece on the problems unions and environmentalists have faced for the past thirty years bridging the gap between them to fight together for better work.
On April 20, 1914, members of the Colorado National Guard, along with a strikbreaking militia employed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a corporation owned by John D. Rockefeller,.
Speaking of Coolidge, I don't think I've ever posted this Coolidge speech, the first film of a presidential speech with sound. Pure charisma!