Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968, edited by Jan Hoffenaar, Dieter Kruger, and David Zabecki (English translation) is a collection of essays on Soviet and Western.
Talib Kweli on what working people have to do to get by.
Scott Walker.
Run-DMC reminds us of the hard economic times of African-Americans during the Reagan years.
Blind Willie McTell on the perils of agricultural work and nature in the American South.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: Ah, doesn't everybody long for the days when George W. Bush assembled a Potemkin coalition to lie the country into an insanely wasteful, destructive, and irrational war.
This fine Labor Day, I want to run a series of posts remembering the great history of work and the lack thereof in American music. For the first post, here's.
The entire August 2004 archive is now available. We managed 78 posts, with distribution as follows: 34 Farley 20 Lemieux 23 djw 1 Loomis (early guest post) We don't have.
- Mike Johnson pretends not to have heard of 50-state abortion ban he co-sponsored
- Eastern Conference Play-In Open Thread
- NBA bans Jontay Porter for life for gambling
- A Man of Principle
- Our unelected superlegislature to act to let Republican insurrectionists off the hook
- Help Me Somebody
- Bob Graham, RIP
- More Quality Republican Governance
- Ralph Nader in winter
- Voting Begins in Chattanooga