Recently I was approached by a man wanting me to do some design work for him. Commissions come pretty few and far between for me so I was excited to ask him what he had in mind, exactly. Well. It turns out he wanted to me to...
So this is apparently a real thing: Outside the Beltway, the right is livid with new Speaker Paul Ryan’s trillion-dollar spending deal with Democrats. Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Ryan,.
I have been, ah, somewhat unkind to Chip Kelly's performance since he made the unfortunate decision to assume full control over personnel -- and, obviously, I don't think I owe.
As I sometimes say to new Twitter followers, I promise to never exceed your expectations. Apropos of the holiday season, have a brief and no doubt bowlderized history of Delaware, Ohio. Like many of the places we pass through during our trips to the People's...
The Library of Congress named this year's National Film Registry selections today. As usual, it combined some big-budget movies people love even if they aren't really that good (Top Gun?.
On December 21, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Allegheny Technologies committed a labor violation when it locked out workers at steel plants across the country back in August..
Yesterday, in a different forum, our valued commenter Bijan Parsia complained about Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Basically, his complaint, if I may summarize, is that it is awfully simplistic. I agree, as I have stated before. The basic problem with Zinn...
Trump's response to Rubio getting the coveted Trey Gowdy endorsement is actually pretty acute: Probably not, which is why this is an excellent demonstration of Rubio’s problem, and the problem.
In the 1970s, James Brown and Porter Wagoner became friends. Wagoner was of course a major player in country music and so he managed to schedule the Godfather of Soul.
Some guy at Return of Kings has done the math (in his butt) and come to the conclusion that white supremacists and MRA types (my Venn diagram, let me show you it) have cost the new...
The twenty essays that make up Eating Asian America demonstrate both the multiple approaches to food studies in an era where that field has exploded and how food is a.
You can't make an omelette without a lot of summary executions, or something: An Ohio Grand Jury has declined to indict two police officers in the death of Tamir Rice,.