Since this is a huge NFL day, I thought tonight's film club should be one of my favorite moments in NFL history, the 2012 Fail Mary game, when the scab refs gave the Seahawks a win over the Green Bay Packers due to their utter...
Author: Erik Loomis
Protest against the California Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the anti-affirmative action case, Los Angeles, May 7, 1977.
OK, Francis Fukuyama was an idiot. But there is today an End of History and specifically, the end of the historical profession. Daniel Bessner has a good op-ed about this.
I despise philanthropy with the heat of a thousand suns. Relying on the wealthy to fund our priorities is a disaster--we are completely at their whims, or the whims of the committees when the foundations exist. You out of fashion? You are gone. It's terrible....
Hollywood is mostly a union town but when new sides of the industry develop, they have to be organized too and they often aren't. You saw that with the video.
This is the grave of William T.G. Morton. Born in Charlton, Massachusetts in 1819, Morton was the son of a miner and thus pretty working class. He grew up in.
I don't have any shows lined up for January, which I don't much like. But I did have one exciting musical moment in the last two weeks. I finally watched Les Blank's film A Poem is a Naked Person, which is a sort of profile...
New Mexico moves to cut off a serious threat to abortion access, even in nominally blue states. Local governments across New Mexico would be prohibited from placing restrictions on abortion.
I've gotten to know a couple of the staffers who have founded the Congressional Workers Union and they are great people doing great work. Unionizing congressional staffers, and for that.
This is the grave of John Peurifoy. Born in 1907 in Waterboro, South Carolina, Peurifoy grew up fairly well off and got himself an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. He was close to the South Carolina political world, especially the despicable Cotton Ed Smith,...
The main thing to note about the Aunt Jemima brand is that it is incredibly racist. Other than the image of that however, there's nothing racist per se about this.
Our NFL playoff preview. Go Seahawks! I have no hope against the Niners, but hey, unexpected playoff run, can't complain. I'd say Go Chargers too, but Brandon Staley is an.