77% of American adults have been vaccinated against COVID (66.4% fully). What about the other 23%? What's leading them to refuse to get vaccinated? Here's a rough typology, with no attempt to estimate the relative proportions between the various groups (Also some people are going to...
This is the grave of William Shirer. Born in Chicago in 1904, Shirer grew up the son of a lawyer. But his father died when he was a boy and.
Racist and authoritarian coup plotter John Eastman will not be speaking at APSA after all, because the Claremont Institute pulled their panels after they were put online: Waiting for Claremont.
Last Saturday, I saw Yo La Tengo play at the Columbus Theater in Providence. It was my second Yo La Tengo show and the better of the two, I think. In the first set, the band really went to their quieter music, which isn't surprising given...
I’m in the midst of Julian Jackson’s epic biography of Charles De Gaulle, which means that I have a great many more thoughts about Charles De Gaulle than I am.
Above, center right: Josh Hawley's friends, just outside of the camera lens Here's a line from the standup routine Amy Coney Barrett performed at the McConnell Center after being introduced.
The nation's most-watched cable news show is becoming even more explicitly fascist: “'An unrelenting stream of immigration’: but why?” he said. “Well, Joe Biden just said it: to change the racial mix of the country. That’s the reason. To reduce the political power of people whose...
To commemorate International One-Hit Wonder Day, I'm going to post five of my personal favorites in the category, which I'm defining via the extremely scientific method of pop hits that.
Speaking of people being assaulted by Tucker's Army of Sociopaths for doing their jobs: Caroline Young was thrilled to be hired two years ago as a host at Café Poêtes.
A big debate at the moment is whether the COVID pandemic is going to cause any sort of permanent shift among employers, especially in the "knowledge worker" economy, regarding work from home policies. BTW the phrase "work from home" is a typical patriarchal misnomer, since enormous...
This is the grave of Hank Snow. Born in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia in 1914, Clarence Snow grew up dirt poor. His parents had a bad marriage and they had no.
I suppose there is a certain internal logic to anti-vaxxers urging people not to go to (or to leave) ICUs: Anti-vaccine Facebook groups have a new message for their community.