When someone in my twitter feed made this snarky tweet, I did not, as they say, "trust the shorter." http://t.co/yTzbSpMvnk Linker: Religion is doing fine in spite of the Pew poll because some nones say "God bless you" when they sneeze. — Adam Lee (@DaylightAtheism)...
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On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Tennessee Valley Authority as a centerpiece to his New Deal. The TVA would have both short and long-term impacts on.
Pretty impressive. Let me also endorse Rick Perlstein's summary from Facebook: Don finally accepts that faking authenticity is all there is, all the way down. *Title modified to properly indicate.
Thanks to some scheduling luck, Scott and I should be able to podcast tomorrow, so that'll be going up earlier than usual. In the mean time, have fun kibitzing in the thread. And as usual, beware of spoilers.
Well, this is it. I have to say that after Season 6, I was really down on the show, but both halves of Season 7 have been excellent. My prediction,.
I have a new essay up on Salon.com, this time on the heated debate over the show's depiction of Loras Tyrell. FYI, I didn't choose the headline. Feel free to.
I am really hesitant to believe too strongly in demographic factors as the key issue in an election, largely because there are so many variables and because it creates a sense of inevitably that does not actually exist. But Republican voters are super old and...
John Nolte really likes "Mad Max: Fury Road." After almost twenty years of directing nothing but kids movies, 70 year-old George Miller has picked himself up, dusted himself off,.
This compilation of reactions to the list that destroyed American liberalism is highly amusing and, in its own way, instructive. The amount of defensive whining generated by an instance of.
Karen Piper has written a powerful book about how water privatization threatens people around the world. Connecting the subject to the world's colonial past, she demonstrates how a handful of multinational corporations working with global financial organizations like the World Bank have ridden roughshod over...
Adam Arenson and Virginia Scharff, who was my dissertation advisor, on the end of the Civil War in the West: But looking at the war from the West is an.
I'll do this quickly after a perfect division round, and will add Berube picks if/when I get them: Rangers v. Tampa Bay Part of me can easily see the Rangers as.