The LA Weekly's piece about the decline of Pacifica is a really terrific read. I'll pick out a few choice bits at random. First, the ratings: Pacifica has a long and storied history, and still features such leading liberals as Amy Goodman, the widely known host...
Like you ever thought Molly Pitcher wasn't the Kool-Aid pitcher.
If you saw the Drive-by Truckers last night at the House of Blues in Boston, well, consider yourself unlucky enough to have been in my presence. It was a pretty.
Forget robbing casinos. The real money for Clooney and the gang to go rob in elaborate, fashionable, humorous, and fairly pointless ways is from megachurches like Joel Osteen's. Joel Osteen recently reported the theft of $600,000 from the safe in his church, but the theft wasn’t...
The rich man's Tim Tebow will need to find employment elsewhere.
So, I was reading this entry (which is mostly about Bruno Mars and Katy Perry) at Crooked Timber and I was excitedly composing all these responses (to both the post.
JoePa and Coach K share life lessons Q: How many times in the last ten NCAA tournaments has Duke seriously underperformed relative to its seeding? A: Eight.
The companies advancing the farcically specious religious freedom arguments against the contraception non-mandate want their employees to get even less for the health insurance they pay for with their labor.
Because white preschoolers are suspended for "observable offenses," whereas black preschoolers are suspended for being uppity. Just look at that kid's uppity little face. Does he look like he wants.
A terrific review essay by my colleague Monica Potts: Articles about poverty that are just a catalog of hard times are so prevalent that Dwight Macdonald, writing in The New Yorker in 1963, thought it was inherent to the exercise: “There is a monotony about the...
Republicans are smart in cutting science funding. Because if you can cut it enough, the nation will close the institution that has longest measured carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and.
A good report on the money behind the ads promoting variously fictional random anecdotes about the ACA: Americans for Prosperity — the group backed by David H. and Charles G..