I’ve put up another set of short reviews on my tenth-rate film blog. Read if you care. In short: Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945)–I know people love this film, but I’ve seen in a couple times and can’t get over the huge plot problems. Women Without Men (Neshat, 2009)–Beautifully shot film about Iranian women […]
Month: February 2014
The Congressional Science Committee is at present basically the legislative arm of the Chevron octopus: For Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the country with $26.2 billion in annual profits,
The oil industry has agreed to voluntary standards to improve safety on oil trains after a spate of recent accidents. Of course it’s voluntary which means that it’s unenforceable. So color
Head, meet desk: Several construction labor unions have decided to lend their support to the Keystone XL. Though critics charge that the pipeline will lead to a drastic increase in carbon emissions, the unions, including Laborers International Union and the International Union of Operating Engineers, have endorsed the project in exchange for several thousand short-term […]
This post is the Infilaw law schools. Infllaw is a subsidiary of the good folks at Sterling Partners. Infilaw currently owns three ABA-accredited law schools, Arizona Summit (formerly Phoenix), Charlo
From Daniel Little: Robin Blackburn has assembled a fascinating book drawing out some surprising connections between Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx, An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lin
It isn’t dead horse blogging (and don’t worry yourselves, I still have a good number of dead horses to show you), but this essay on the forgotten history of cows in New York City is great. There may be some cow tunnels underneath the city built to move cows around without clogging city streets, a […]
A good deal of legitimate criticism of Caitlin Flanagan’s work has appeared on this blog, but I must say that I very much enjoyed this article on fraternity life and litigation strategy: So rece
The UAW has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over the interference of Tennessee politicians in the union election, claiming intimidation and asking that the results be thrown
Rough loss for the U.S., but there’s reason for consolation: America has almost as many goals against Canada as Latvia and Norway did. — mc79hockey (@mc79hockey) February 21, 2014 Seriously, even though Canada outplayed the U.S. by a much greater margin than the score suggests, one elimination game doesn’t really prove anything. Commenter rw970 was […]
Building on the model of professional sports, where immensely profitable owners squeeze the wages, reduce the benefits, and undermine the pensions of everyday workers because they can, the Pac-12, flu
Once again, figure skating is a terrible sport.