This is the grave of Anne Gorsuch Burford, a horrible human. Ugh. Born in 1942 in Casper, Wyoming, Anne McGill grew up in Denver. She went to the University of Colorado early, graduating at the age of 19. Then she stayed in Boulder for law...
Author: Erik Loomis
President Joe Biden visited the MTA Long Island Rail Road West Side Yard on Tuesday, Jan 31, 2023 to announce a federal grant of $292 million toward the Hudson Tunnel.
Phil Lesh was the Grateful Dead's bassist and probably the best pure musician in the band. He also was deeply committed to exploring other sonic worlds and used his significant.
This is the grave of George Taylor. Born in 1716 in Ireland, probably Ulster but this is not certain, Taylor came to the American colonies in 1736, landing in Philadelphia. He came over as an indentured laborer in order to pay his way and his...
This is the grave of Samuel McIntire. Born in 1757 in Salem, Massachusetts, McIntire was just a regular guy in his early life, a woodcarver by trade. But he proved.
Hamilton Nolan has a good piece here on the state of labor vis-a-vis politics, both in terms of the limits of what the present Democratic Party can even do and.
Whether on the left, or among liberals, very much including LGM commenters, we are all high on our own supply when it comes to the election and I think a lot of it is not really wanting to face what is happening in America. In...
This is the grave of the M. King Hubbert. Born in 1903 in San Saba, Texas, Hubbert grew up well off enough to attend the University of Chicago, where he.
I am extremely unexcited by a Yankees-Dodgers World Series, but beating the Yankees is all that matters and I know that one of the all time great baseball personalities and.
This is the grave of Sidney Shurcliff. Born in 1906 in Boston, Shurcliff went to Harvard, graduating from there in 1927. His father was a draftsman and architect and he joined his father's firm after graduation. His father offered him a partnership in 1933. Hard...
Because of overlords who love to turn DATA into a fetish, anytime an economist demonstrates something historians have known for twenty years, it gets headlines in major papers because NUMBERS..
It is October 21. Kamala Harris has raised record amounts of money. It hasn't mattered much--it was a tossup election from the moment we finally got Biden to step aside.