Talib Kweli on what working people have to do to get by.
Month: September 2013
Richard Thompson on love and strikes.
Scott Walker.
Run-DMC reminds us of the hard economic times of African-Americans during the Reagan years.
The legendary cowboy singer Glenn Ohrlin with a comedic song about the very unpleasant work of castrating farm animals.
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 against a country that posed no threat to the United States? Ol' "More Rubble Less...
Dolly Parton reminds us about work and feminism.
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 traffic stats for this period, but to the best of my recollection we were drifting...
Yikes: Radiation levels around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned. Last week the plant's operator reported radioactive water had leaked from.
Over at Monkey Cage, Andrew Gelman has an excellent piece on how post-publication peer-review works (and doesn't) in the blogosphere. One of the central themes (to me) is how complacency.