On August 23, 1912, the United States Commission on Industrial Relations was founded. One of the most remarkable moments in American labor history, the USCIR (more popularly known as the Walsh Committee) forced industrial leaders to testify about the conditions of American labor in front...
Month: August 2014
Typical that the Chicago Cubs, with their century of pathetic failure and fans who revel in it combined with their Koch Brothers-esque owners, would provide one of the great, if.
Edge of the West goes the way of all flesh: It’s time to shut down The Edge of the American West. It’s been a long run, and I’ve enjoyed it, but.
Tali Mendelberg and Bennett Butler: A true measure of a president’s priorities lies hidden in plain sight in his budget proposals. Under that standard, Mr. Obama has been more committed to communities like Ferguson than any Democratic president in the past half century. By looking...
It's important to note in the wake of Ferguson that the war against people of color waged by American police forces is not just against African-Americans. Take this case: In.
Tea Party organizations are an purposively inefficient mechanism for relieving rubes from their money: And then you get a direct mail piece, or an email, or see an ad on.
Interesting little history of various terms of endearment. I wonder what would I happen if I started calling my friends "bawcock."
Moshe Marvit with the next round of attacks on public sector unionism from the people who brought you Harris v. Quinn. Basically, they are going after the entire idea of.
Say this for Halbig trooferism: the layers of bad arguments justify the Buzzfeed format. Jeb Lund had to read "Paul Ryan"'s "book", so the least you can do is click.
Burning Man already sounded horrible. A bunch of white hippies on mushrooms and MDMA dancing to techno in the desert in 110 degree heat without proper sanitation is my version of hell. Or so I thought. Burning Man has gotten so much worse: A few...
Wow, the Dow topped 17,000! That must mean these corporate profits are really trickling down to American workers, right? Call it the no-raises recovery: Five years of economic expansion have.
Awhile back I wrote a an entry talking about evolution and how it was evident simply by looking at how various animals changed through the years and often resembled each.