Sadly, I don't have any more historical films of boxing cats to show you. But General Motors's bizarre animal newsreel series from the mid 1930s was more than just boxing cats. It was also smoking cows!
Month: August 2012
One of the generally agreed upon things in the modern, 21st century wealthy nation world (or at least the politically progressive part of that world anyway) is the democracy of.
I have a piece in Salon about how the concepts of "homosexuality" and "obesity" are examples of how deviance from social ideals gets medicalized, and how recognizing this requires recognizing.
Must I post this video yet again? It appears I must: “There were no workers that were forced to attend the event,” [Murray Energy Chief Financial Officer Rob] Moore said. “We had managers that communicated to our work force that the attendance at the Romney...
For a split-second, I liked Grant Morrison a little, then I realized he'd made me jealous of Jonah Goldberg, and hated him all the more: This exchange occuers in the.
Turns out there was, like, weather or something, and none of us will be in town on Thursday. Wind and water permitting, LGM highly recommends that all NOLA readers and.
Ross Douthat tries out the routine so beloved by conservative bloggers the world over: The biggest difficulty [with the Judith Jarvis Thomson argument you might remember from high school forensics], though, is that most women considering an abortion were not kidnapped and impregnated against their...
The tangle between Robert E. Lee imagery, Confederacy worship, white supremacy, and human rights is far too complex to take on in anything shorter than a three volume set (although.
As some of you probably know, the NFL has refused to sign a new contract with the referees union and has pulled together crews of scab referee labor. They are.
Republicans are for it. But their version means that people who aren't affluent just won't be able to get health care, so it's rationing by merit!
A Republican PAC full of former Navy Seals, Special Operations for America, will be releasing an ad entitled "Bow to Nobody" at the RNC: Ryan Zinke, the former Navy SEAL.
Bruce Bawer, an old white male and writer of anti-Islamic screeds, seems to think that the downfall of higher education is in the "studies." You know, black studies, women's studies,.