Some links for your reading pleasure... Turns out the German weren't actually tracking Patton's contributions on a white board. Jacobin's history of pro-wrestling. My argument with Loomis over Hamilton, Storified The US Navy's indoor ocean. An appreciation of Phil Hartman. Putin and rationality. The depths...
Month: August 2014
There were lots of cats hanging around soldiers during World War I. They were cute. That is all.
UC Davis law school dean Kevin Johnson was crowing to the media last week about a surge in applications to his school, in the midst of a shrinking national applicant.
A for-profit grift mill is shutting down: After years of enrollment losses, Anthem Education, a for-profit chain of colleges and career institutes, filed for bankruptcy Monday. The company has abruptly shut down a number of its campuses, leaving state agencies struggling to funnel displaced students...
Between 1935 and 1945, photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration documented the nation and its people as it suffered through and emerged from the Great Depression. 170,000 images remain..
I find cemeteries pretty fascinating places for a number of reasons. First, I have a bit of a weird hobby of visiting the graves of random famous people from American.
Victor Davis Hanson, for comparing the IDF to William Tecumseh Sherman and the people of Gaza to the Confederate slaveholding class.
When you hear about a book called "The Faggiest Vampire," you can't help but be intrigued, especially if you are eight, which I am. So, one day while I was.
Today in idiots: Just when it seemed the right wing couldn’t get any more divorced from reality around here, a local conservative group has launched a protest against what it.
President Obama is granting Lt. Alonzo Cushing, who played a critical role in repelling Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, the Medal of Honor. It's pretty amazing he didn't already have it since had Pickett taken the hill, it's possible at least the war would have ended...
A minor detail in this article on the history of Tabasco sauce, but one that is telling about how, when we are talking about "innovators," we forget who actually does.
Been a looong time since I had a proper space to make art. I'm still pressed for time, unbelievably pressed, but..Did you miss my art? Well, I'm back in the.