Well, this is just awesome:
Month: August 2013
Yuengling owner Dick Yuengling, Jr. is an anti-union extremist who thinks Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is “a great man,” hates unions, and is leading the Keystone State fight to make
I’ll preface this by saying that I’m a member of the 1%: the one percent of Americans under the age of 40 who remains without a tattoo. So while I have no personal stake in the issue, the
Claire Potter has her Ten Commandments of Graduate School, all of which I recommend highly. Thou shalt not rack up unnecessary credit card debt. You may need to take out student loans to pay for things like shelter, food, medical care and a decent laptop computer. But don’t take out loans to pay for things […]
If you don’t read Peter Gleick on water and the West, you really need to because he’s the most important journalist focusing on this vital issue. And if he says we have reached peak water,
Colonel Michael Bob Starr and I have gone another iteration on the Air Force. First Colonel Starr: Paradoxically, if the criteria for organizational independence are to have a distinct mission set and
Is still a massive disaster. (The bit about how we know the federal government it TOO DAMNED BIG because it employs more people than the population of Wyoming and North Dakota is an especially nice touch.) Alas, this is a long-standing trend… …as a commenter notes, Baker is excellent on this as well.
Now this is an interesting history of the boardgame Monopoly: Hardly cosmetic, the changes introduce a whole new animating ideology to a game created to critique, not celebrate, corporate America. Con
On last week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt spoke with Michael Hanna of the Century Foundation about the crackdown in Egypt:
Western states and ideological conservatives continue their multi-decade ban against the federal government’s control over public land, demanding the government get out of their ability to do whatever they want to the land while still expecting subsidies for those acivities both direct and indirect. One of the big fights in recent years has been over […]
Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam, by C.R. Anderegg, covers the history of tactical air power (particularly fighter aircraft) from the Vietnam War until the early 198
Who could have guessed that anti-vaccination idiocy would lead to illness? A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned fo