This orchid is one of the three plants I brought with me in the move. I've had it for years, and it blooms reliably, but this is the first time for four simultaneous blooms! I also have an African violet that is blooming, and a number...
Last week was quite the opening week and a lot of hot takes fell real flat. A few points. First, the Arch Manning hype was beyond ridiculous. Maybe he's a.
I don’t know if we have any readers who are based in or around Kansas City, Missouri, but I’ll be giving the 33rd annual Dr. Jerzy Hauptmann Distinguished Guest Lecture.
A remarkable person and athlete -- who I was lucky enough to briefly meet when he gave a speech at his law school alma mater sometime in the early 90s -- has passed away: Ken Dryden has died after a battle with cancer, the Montreal Canadiens announced early...
Update: Friend of the blog Michael Hiltzik reported out this story more than two weeks ago -- something not acknowledged in the NYT piece. The Times has a bad habit.
We lost another of the great figures of the civil rights movement: Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three.
This is the grave of Vernon Jarrett. Born in 1917 or 1918 in Salisbury, Tennessee (accounts differ, you'd be surprised how many dates on graves are incorrect; in fact, there are other publications that have him born in 1921, but are probably wrong), Jarrett grew up...
The sanewashing of RFK Jr. is an outright pathology at this point: Kennedy lied, a lot, about the efficacy and safety of vaccines; he lied about the clinical data supporting.
A Mark 11 SEAL delivery vehicle conducting routine training; photo altered by the U.S. Navy for security purposes. (Photo by Chief Mass Communications Specialist Christopher Perez). Source In 2019, a.
For those of you who do the Substack thing, I was on Julian Zelizer's show talking about my New York Times op-ed from Labor Day about organized labor's failure to confront Trump. Check it out. I am both grumpy and frumpy. https://open.substack.com/pub/julianzelizer/p/interview-with-erik-loomis-historian?r=csf0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false On The Long View,...
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (C) (D-NY) meets with newly-elected Democratic senators-elect Kyrsten Sinema (L) (D-AZ) and Jacky Rosen (R) (D-NV) in his office at.
There's a certain kind of cynicism that sees itself as highly sophisticated that assumes that of course Donald Trump doesn't believe in anything, he just wants power. That version of.