Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is a sociopath: What we’re hearing from the Boeing Machinists right now isn’t just the usual labor-management posturing. It’s a primal scream of the middle class. When a union boss the other day called Boeing’s offer to do the 777X jetliner...
Month: November 2013
Earlier this week, the Republican minority in the Senate blocked the nomination of Nina Pillard. The stated reasons included her participation in the litigation of some cases that ultimately ended.
In a previous post I estimated that the large majority of ABA law schools are running substantial deficits this fiscal year. This post is about the consequences of that situation..
The folks at Whiskey Fire are talking about it what it takes to churn out conservative kids. I think everyone is making this much more difficult than it needs to be. If you want to raise to an entitled, bullying, whining, racist, misogynist homophobe, all...
For some reason, Bill Clinton has decided to play into the hands of the bad guys on the ACA: In the midst of the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care.
Tonight's look at the past is even weirder and more unsettling than usual. This is a 1950 newsreel clip of Austin woman Louella Gallagher, who put on public knife throwing.
My latest at the Diplomat: A recent article in the New York Times highlighted China’s rise as a major arms exporter. The mainstream discovery of China’s growing weight in the international arms trade won’t surprise many close observers, but it’s nevertheless worthwhile to study the trends in...
Given the ideology of the Republican Party in 1865 and 2013, I guess it is fitting that Springfield, Illinois is looking to sell off the public cemetery where Abraham Lincoln.
Evidently, the Women’s Health Protection Act isn't going to pass anytime soon. But I agree that it's another welcome sign that Democrats have decided to stop being timorous on reproductive.
Oh, for fuck's sake:Abraham Lincoln, a Democrat? So says a plaque at a public university in Lincoln’s home state of Illinois, where, since 1905, students at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago have seen the nation’s 16th president — and quite possibly its most influential —...
The increasingly common multiracial faces of America, via National Geographic. I'm sure all the old white people in Alabama who are hearing Spanish at their favorite buffet restaurants, the old.
Submitted without comment. OK, one: if loving Allen West’s new book cover is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. I’m an artist with a pretty detailed knowledge of Photoshop…and I.