Author: Erik Loomis
An audience at a "Bernie's Back" rally awaits U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders to speak at Queensbridge Park in the.
This is the grave of Paul Saumelson. Born in 1915 in Gary, Indiana, Samuelson grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. His father was a pharmacist who did well and.
A couple of weeks ago, several LGM writers descended upon Athens, Georgia. The putative reason was the Drive By Truckers homecoming in Athens, which we had all wanted to go.
I never cared about pieties around personal behavior and we have known forever that evangelicals are mostly gigantic hypocrites when it comes to personal behavior. Like many of us, I.
This is the grave of Mary Pickford. Born in 1892 in Toronto, Gladys Smith grew up in a working class family. Her father was someone who just picked up whatever.
This is the grave of Tommy Ramone. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949, Thomas Erdelyi was lucky to have been born at all. His parents were Jews who had survived.
This is the grave of Jim Backus. Born in 1913 in Cleveland, Backus grew up in the upper middle class world of that city's eastern suburbs, which are still pretty.
This is the grave of Ray Charles. Born in Albany, Georgia in 1930, Ray Charles Robinson grew up very poor. His mother was an orphan a family had taken in.