When my son became obsessed with dinosaurs (with a little prompting from me) I wasn't exactly heartbroken. I've always been a dino-lover, and my son's interest in them gave me the perfect excuse to treat them as something of a hobby. My son and I...
Month: April 2014
It sure is amazing how the ones that involve opposing contraception (as of 2012) are sliced carpaccio-thin so that they match up exactly with the Republican war on the Affordable.
To build on Scott's post about last night's Wussy show in Albany, it was awesome. I think Wussy is now an official LGM-approved band, along with Drive-By Truckers, Darcy James.
The new UN Climate Report was damning, noting the near-certainly of catastrophic climate change that will affect everything on the planet. So of course NPR would report on it by interviewing the single scientist who refused to sign on to the final summary because it...
Given that Washington was a swampy cesspool of disease and both human and animal waste through most of the 19th century (as opposed to the spiritual and moral cesspool it.
Colonel Robert Spalding III (USAF): To buy time for Ukraine and to allow time for diplomatic measures to be effective, a military solution is called for. A purely defensive deployment.
AFSCME wins April Fool's Day with a fake advertisement for a suppository that destroys the middle class. Note: "the drug is not for everyone including pregnant women, people with families, if you have a pre-existing mortgage or if you suffer from student debt"
It's obviously not surprising that Republicans are making up various reasons to ignore the relatively positive news on health insurance enrollments. Ted Cruz actually used the phrase "fuzzy math." (As.
It's horrifying. But the larger problem is that "humane execution" is a contradiction in terms.
Erik made the trip from Rhode Island yesterday so we could see a rare gig by the Cincinnati-based band Wussy, who we've mentioned before. In 2005, they released Funeral Dress, one of my very favorite albums of the last decade, and they've followed that up...
Yesterday I noted that a bunch of law schools are pursuing aggressive buyout plans in regard to their senior faculty, that in some cases contemplate attempting to get half or.
...and in any language, no less: That's from last night's Angels-Mariners game, and in case your high school Spanish is rusty, this oblivious ass of a Yankee fan is criticizing.