This is the grave of Richard Rush. Born in 1780 in Philadelphia, Rush grew up in one of the elite families of the Early Republic. His father was Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the most important people of the American Revolution. His mother was Julia...
Author: Erik Loomis
Dedicated to the late great Shock G. https://www.youtube.com/embed/msrq0HjwJUM I am also amused by this blog post noting that Michael Steele looks like Shock G.
It's early, but Biden has most strikingly disappointed immigration activists more than probably on any other issue, perhaps excepting Iran. Yes, he backed off his terrible choice to limit the.
That people of color are targeted repeatedly for the worst kind of polluting plants is absolutely 100% an intentional act of corporations and politicians. The Fifth District of Louisiana’s St. James Parish was never exactly a bustling community — but it was still a community.Then...
I don't remember what the context or the thread was where some commenter called me a "fourth-rate historian." Was it Greenwald? Anyway, I was reading Ezra Klein's interview with Noam.
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were.
Early in the film series, we watched one of the iconic Rainier commercials which anyone in the Northwest in the 1980s most definitely remembers. Well, the history of beer commercials is long and fruitful. We later also watched the original Bud Bowl. The classic Miller...
The homelessness issue in the West is quite complicated. Homeless camps have been tolerated in western liberal cities in a way that people from the rest of the country would.
Border Patrol agents patrol the US-Mexico border prior to an Easter mass at the fence separating the two countries at Friendship Park in San Ysidro, California on Sunday, April 16,.
This is just so, so horrible. Fire crews worked for a third day to extinguish a wildfire on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain on Tuesday as the city came to terms with the damage caused by what officials have described as one of...
This is the grave of Joseph Swing. Born in Jersey City in 1894, Swing grew up well off and was admitted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He.
Monte Hellman died yesterday, requiring Two Lane Blacktop to be tonight's film selection. I find this film to be a real distillation of counterculture masculinity, with the obsession with the.