Like a lot of people my age, I primarily know Claudia Cardinale from her role as Jill in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, which is in my view one of the ten best films ever made. But of course she was...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Benjamin West. Born in 1738 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, West grew up in modest circumstances. His father ran an inn and did pretty alright, but was.
Like most professors, I have a lot of colleagues from outside the United States. The talk about Trump putting a $100K fee on H-1B visas has focused on tech, but.
Amazingly, Kathy Hochul is the least stupid of the leading New York Democrats and came around to endorse Mamdani before Schumer, Jeffries, or Gillibrand. Pretty bad when your instincts are worse than Hochul! In any case, the leader of the New York Democratic Party is...
I was deeply confused yesterday by the open thread on Kirk's funeral--not by the thread itself of course, but by the evidence from the comments that LGM readers WERE ACTUALLY.
This is the grave of Harry Truman. We don't really need a regular bio of Truman. It would take too long anyway. So let me make just a few points.
This is the grave of Aphra Behn. Born in 1640 in Canterbury, Kent, England, we know almost nothing about Behn's childhood, including her pre-married last name. She seems to have come from very little. Perhaps her father was a barber, there were a few references...
A few shows in the last eight days--will highlight two today and save one for next week. The more popular show I saw was Wet Leg, in Boston. They have.
Teamsters head Sean O'Brien continues his run as a class traitor, following his new hero Scumbag Don, and endorses Vivek to eviscerate the working class as governor of Ohio. The.
The answer is, once again, no. If you ever want to see how deep the cult goes in the people who believe in it, this will demonstrate it just fine.
We are 1/3 through the season after today, which is crazy, but college football is a short season. We know quite a bit about most teams now, though a few.
This is the grave of Kenneth Roberts. Born in Kennebunk, Maine in 1885, Roberts grew up there. He did leave for college, attending Cornell University. He was a fancy frat.