Every year, the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont, that great home of the granite workers and its union, hosts a big May Day talk, cosponsored by the Vermont AFL-CIO. This year it is me. If you are in the area, come out and say...
Author: Erik Loomis
I hope someone loves you as much as Scumbag Don loves people who steal from the poor: In December 2023, the U.S. Justice Department sued a Texas land developer it.
Catholics like to talk a good game about social justice but working for Catholic colleges is pretty terrible from an employment perspective. Just about everyone I've known who teaches at.
This is the grave of James Henry Hammond, one of the worst humans in American history, Born into the slaveholding class in 1807 in Newberry County, South Carolina, Hammond grew up reasonably well off but not super rich. He went to South Carolina College, graduating...
Companies are so all-in for AI that there is a chip shortage and thus the prices for personal computers are skyrocketing. I built a PC for a colleague in January.
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 was one of the truly groundbreaking laws in American history, creating the entire idea of citizen review of development projects for environmental impact..
This is the grave of both Marian Anderson and James DePriest. Born in 1897 in Philadelphia, Anderson grew up in the Black working class. Her father sold ice and later sold booze. Her mother did have a bit of higher education but couldn't teach in...
After sort of recovering from the exhaustion that Big Ears creates, I dragged myself to Boston to see the great rock band Wednesday, who I think is probably the most.
If there's one place I DO NOT WANT TO SEE AI, it's ProPublica, that gem of investigative journalism. Alas, they are run by bad people too it turns out. And.
This is the grave of Bob Dole. So this is the rare case where I visit the grave of someone for which I have an obituary written. I'm just going to republish that, with a few modifications. Then we can all remember how awful Bob...
I need to channel my hero, Andy Rooney, here. Maybe I need to make a series of this. For context, the greatest moment in the history of the grave series.
Abigail Spanberger strikes one for the good people of Virginia: Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Del. Dan Helmer’s bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in.