When I discovered that Scarecrow exists, i.e. a movie starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman from 1973 that I had never even heard of before, I had two thoughts. First, I had to watch it. Second, if it was any good, I'd have heard of...
Author: Erik Loomis
Hardly the most important thing going on in the world today, what with America taking yet another giant leap back to the Gilded Age. It's been a hell of a.
This is the grave of Emmett Till. You know, I don't really have anything to say here. We all the know the story of Emmett Till. We all know the.
I added a couple of comments to this Boston Globe piece on Trump sending Big Balls and friends after the Federal Mediation Service, which helps strikes end. So now strikes are not ending and the government isn't doing a very basic thing to help the...
I am very much on the verge of returning to all in class exams. The New Yorker has a long piece on how ChatGPT has transformed college and none of.
Maybe. But also, maybe not. As Paul pointed out earlier, this country is a complete disaster and Trump is no less popular now than he was in his first term,.
Jimmy Swaggart is dead. I regret to note that while he was on my obituary list, I did not get to him in time (I am working up a good one on that hypocritical scumbag and extremely brief GOP speaker Bob Livingston though. I've also...
Here’s my list of books read in May. Last month’s list is here. You can follow previous months from there. This goes out to my book patron, known as PS, who.
On July 1, 1847, the Factories Act of 1847 in Britain went into effect. This law limited hours in textile mills for women and children under 18 to 10 per.
What if the beaning death of Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays in 1920 was part of an occult plan to make the Yankees the dominant franchise in the major leagues? That is the subject of this clever Sean McCoy film from...
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were.
When I say what is going on with the Republican Party is more late 19th century than Nazi Germany, this is exactly what I am talking about: In 2023, while.