The deserving Hall of Famer and face of the Padres has died at age 54. He was diagnosed with cancer in his cheek four years ago (avoid chewing tobacco, kids), and had to take a leave from his coaching job at SDSU, but I had...
Month: June 2014
Colin Long's Jacobin essay on visiting the Tarzeen and Rana Plaza factory disaster sites is all worth reading, but the important part of the article is his discussion of the.
I know next to nothing about Wisconsin politics, so I found this Alec MacGillis article on Scott Walker quite enlightening. If it is accurate, we are basically looking at a.
Casey Kasem, R.I.P.
You'll have to wait another nine months for my next recap, so savor this one!
It was a tl;dr situation, but Origami Isopod tells me that Frank Miller wants to write "Captain America." Your thoughts? Here's a trailer for Miller's new movie. (Directed by Robert.
I don't disagree with Erik that Tony Blair is the person I least want to hear from about Iraq. But surely Tom Freidman is in the top 5. Some selected insights from Mr. Suck On This: "in Iraq today, my enemy’s enemy is my enemy."...
There is not a single person I want to hear less from on Iraq than Tony Blair.
Katherine Epstein’s new book "Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain" is about two things. First, it’s about the torpedo, including both the struggles that.
Where do your tastes fall on this 1949 chart from Life magazine? Beer may be low-brow but of course it is awesome. Bourbon and ginger ale? Why waste the bourbon on that. No lower-middle brow for me. Extra dry martini? Well, for 1949 I guess...
In the 1980s, under the presidency of the cartoonishly evil Ronald Reagan, the U.S. not only trained and openly supported an El Salvador military that tortured and killed people with.
bspencero’s stare touches her visitors with peace, silence and awkwardness. Amazing transformations happen, and many find new power, vitality and a zest for dinosaur erotica resulting from their experience. bspencero.