Roberto Clemente and Al Kaline The former Detroit Tiger star has died at age 85. Kaline was my first sports hero of any kind. A great player who played his entire career in the shadow of some greater ones (Mantle, Mays, and Aaron were all...
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Apropos of the striking comparisons between the 2000 and 2016 election campaigns, I had a brief Twitter thread today inspired by the discussion of David Foster Wallace's fawning, overpraised essay.
Captain Brett Crozier, USN. By U.S. Navy - Public Domain, Link This is the most that anyone has cared about what has happened on a USN aircraft carrier for a.
Although I've been bad at promoting it, many of you will know that I published a book last year, entitled Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. It recently came out in paperback, and you can support your local independent bookstore...
Boeing YB-17. By U.S. Air Force - Public Domain, Link The recently acquired weapon of precision bombing gave us an instrument which could cause collapse of this industrial fabric by.
We live in a deeply and fundamentally racist nation. This is in evidence across a wide range of measures of inequality, from wealth to homeownership, incarceration to life expectancy. This.
On April 6, 1905, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters began a sympathy strike in support of striking clothing cutters at Montgomery Ward in Chicago. This moment significantly raised tensions in the strike, leading to the second most fatalities of any twentieth century American strike. The...
Donald the Economic Populist Dove is proposing some more socialisms: Despite the early struggles in getting the stimulus program launched, the Trump administration has begun deliberations on an additional giant.
When the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917, the Allies hoped that the mere promise of a flood of US troops would unsettle Germany and.
Low-wage workers are in the media spotlight more than normal right now thanks to COVID-19. Lost of our low wage workers have lost their jobs and the unemployment crisis this pandemic is causing is both tragic and avoidable, or would be with a decent government...
I have much longer thoughts on Captain Brett Crozier that I hope to finish up and post to the blog tomorrow, but for now it appears that Captain Crozier has.
I've decided to use this time in quarantine to do baking projects with my son. I made homemade biscuits for the first time yesterday. They were incredibly easy to make.