Last week I did a brief interview with Newstex (they aggregate our content in some fashion), in which they asked me a lot of questions about blogging: This, along with the Meet and Greet, reinforced the sense of how grateful we at LGM are to...
Month: September 2011
I love traveling. Seeing the world might mean more to me than almost any other thing I enjoy--reading, music, film, Oregon football, baseball. Maybe not good beer or bourbon, but.
Unless you're completely new to the blog, you know that I disagree with the two key premises underlying Matt Stoller's call for a primary challenge against Obama. First, I think.
Nancy Langston's superb new book explores how endrocine-disrupting chemicals, especially synthetic estrogen (DES) have affected human bodies in the decades since World War II. Exposing the deep problems with American regulatory agencies, how cultural conceptions about gender have shaped our response to and use of...
Thanks to all of the people who showed up at yesterday's Meet and Greet. It's fair to say that the turnout exceeded expectations, but the Elysian was in relatively good.
So it seems that Rod Lurie is remaking Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. I have deep reservations about this. I love Sam Peckinpah. I will defend many of his movies (OK,.
So as all of you have seen from his 100 comments on the matter, Joe from Lowell disagreed with my slamming of Obama for backing off of tightening clean air restrictions. That's fine, he can say what he wants. Unless it has no merit. Such...
From Plumer and Sheppard.
Obama's decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president. While he campaigned on promoting.
Like most of New England outside of Massachusetts, Vermont has a very weak history of prominent politicians. I believe the state has contributed all of 1 person to a cabinet position, for instance. This isn't too surprising, given Vermont's size and proximity to two giants....
This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there's good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring.
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real.