This is the grave of Peter J. Maguire. Born in 1852 in New York, Peter Maguire grew up very poor, in an Irish Catholic family that had immigrated to the U.S. like so many during the potato famine and the general terrible economic conditions of...
Author: Erik Loomis
Why even have disabled workers in the federal government, they give RFK and Trump the willies. As Disability Pride Month comes to a close, the Trump administration has marked the.
They all look the same, amiright? A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among.
Emilio Fernandez's 1951 film Victims of Sin is far from a perfect film, but boy does he push the envelope in a way that you simply could not in Hollywood. Fernandez was Mexico's premier director (arguably at least) in these years. You might know him...
This is correct--the idea in the Bluesky community (which really is a ridiculous bunch of folks) that Andy Beshear should somehow replace Mitch McConnell right now is nonsense. The best.
This is the grave of Miguel Enriquez. Born in 1944 to a pretty elite family in Talcahuano, a prosperous town on the southern Chilean coast, Enriquez grew up an intellectual.
We haven't talked a Hitchcock film in this series in a long time. I fully recognize why Vertigo is considered perhaps the best film ever made and I won't make an argument against the claim. But personally, North by Northwest is my favorite Hitchcock. It's...
Creating a new film version of The Odyssey that is evidently technically great but completely misses the point of the story (according to the book's award winning translator's review; I.
What possible incentive does Trump have to end his favorite little war? His good buddies are raking in the cash thanks to him: Top U.S. oil and gas executives have.
This is the grave of Henry Gantt. Born in 1861 in Calvert County, Maryland into a slaving family, Gantt did not grow up with slaves, thanks to the Civil War ending the most evil of American institutions. The family was certainly downwardly mobile after that...
This is the grave of Vaughn Williams. Born in 1872 in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, Ralph Vaughn Williams--but he would go strictly by Vaughn as his preferred name--grew up the.
Sure, the Trump administration's use of forced labor clauses in American law to justify Trump's tariff obsession is pure, unadulterated cynicism by people who don't care one whit about free.