This is the grave of Freddie Gray. Born in 1989 in Baltimore, Gray grew up hard in the streets of that rough city. He was the son of a single mother and he struggled in school. He had some skill as a football player, but...
Author: Erik Loomis
Keep it to sports. As always, this is the top 10 games of the week based on the ranking of teams from 1-134 at The Athletic, in order of when.
Michael Kazin always has good things to say and one of the things he notes here is that not only is it necessary to rebuild unions to rebuild the Democratic.
When you've been through as many right-wing attacks as I have, you need to keep track of what people are saying about you online. So I have to do the douchiest thing imaginable--create a Google Alert for myself. Gross, I know. But sometimes you find...
This is the grave of Charles Senter. There's not that much out there really on this guy, but one can extrapolate a few things. He was born in 1845 was.
This is pretty big news, considering that Walmart is both a huge employer globally and has resisted unions to such a shocking extent. Eight hundred workers near Toronto have won.
This is the grave of Don Knotts. One of the all time greats, Knotts was born Jesse Donald Knotts in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1924. He had a real rough childhood. His father was schizophrenic and used to chase the boy around with a knife,...
This fascinating 1943 film, surprisingly out of MGM, is a great 10 minute introduction in the midcentury American art scene. It focuses on a few painters, some of which don't.
This is the grave of Charles McLean Andrews. Born in 1863 in Weathersfield, Connecticut, Andrews grew up the son of a Catholic Apostolic minister. I admit I had to look.
This 1938 animation is technically an advertisement for a toothpaste company, but it's not like tooth care comes up more than a couple of times in this 9 1/2 minutes. Rather, it's a great cartoon about a boy who brings a dog home, faces his...
I am glad this happened: The estate of Leonard Cohen is suing Trump over his hijacking of Hallelujah. That is a sentence I never in a million years could have.
One thing people often miss when talking about the horrors of Sean O'Brien and the Teamsters is that in the last election, he was the democratic anti-corruption reform candidate taking.