This is the grave of Dee Dee Ramone. Born in 1951 in Fort Lee, Virginia, Douglas Colvin grew up an army kid, moving around all the time. That had the social implications that it does for a lot of kids, making him feel like an...
Author: Erik Loomis
Yasujiro Ozu is one of my favorite all-time directors, but I confess that I haven't watched many of his classic films in recent years. The only film I of his.
Friedrich St. Florian, the designer of the World War II Memorial in Washington, died. Can you think of a more pointless piece of public architecture? The World War II Memorial.
Portrait of MEP Jean-Marie LE PEN I don't have an obituary and I wish I had thought of writing one on him, but I think we should all be happy that Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Unfortunately, he had children.
So it turns out that one of the most controversial species in the history of American conservation--the snail darter--wasn't an endangered species after all, or even a species. The snail.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the.
How much of a horrible person do you have to be to get other Arkansas leaders to crack down on you? The answer in terms of the state judiciary is this bad: Two days after being sworn in, the Arkansas Supreme Court’s new chief justice...
Joe Biden wants you to remember January 6 as a triumph of democracy holding up against threats. Joe Biden's great weakness these past 4 years is his utterly political cluelessness.
Nurse Harriet Curley takes the pulse of a Navajo patient waiting in the dispensary of the Sage Memorial Hospital, an ultra-modern institution at the Ganado Mission, Arizona, a Presbyterian enterprise.
This is the grave of Donald Meek. Born in 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, Meek spent the first part of his growing up there before the family came to Canada in the early 1890s. He was a tiny boy and got into performing, specifically as an...
One of the things Republican dominated states are doing is cracking down on pornography, as we see here in South Carolina. Theoretically, they are claiming that they are protecting children,.
Good run-down of the state the labor movement here: Union membership went up 139,000 workers to 14,244,000, but the overall workforce grew more, so the union membership rate dropped from.