Guess what her favorite food happens to be? For breakfast she always eats four strips of bacon along with scrambled eggs and grits. She also eats bacon throughout the day. Where is your “science” now, WHO expert panel???
Month: October 2015
This is just a small story about a small city, but I thought it was a pretty good look at perhaps the key issue in modern urbanism, especially in the West and the South, which is whether to build up o
In my seemingly constant travel (thanks to academic stuff and a wife working in a different state, not because I am actually traveling for fun, mostly) around this great land, I look for new things to
The most dangerous workplaces is the family farm, which is why we need a lot more attention paid to working conditions there. This is an outstanding discussion of this easily solvable problem. Richard Rosetter stood inside his 28-foot grain bin and smashed a shovel into the thick layer of ice that covered his corn. He […]
Steve Lubet writes here about the latest research regarding a long-standing controversy: “Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome an organic disease that should be addressed by biomedical research, or is it
Ed Yong provides a useful corrective to some of the media reports about the new WHO classification of processed meats and red meats in the same carcinogenic risk category as cigarettes: These classifi
Shorter Jeb! Bush: if elected, I solemnly pledge to privatize Medicare and increase the retirement age for Social Security.
For the last three weeks, I’ve been running a Kickstarter to try to raise funds to let me spend some time writing exclusively about A Song of Ice and Fire, and to help me publish some books. In
A terrible week of publicity for law schools continues apace, as today the New York Times published a story on the new Law School Transparency study that I highlighted in last week’s Atlantic pi
A terrific piece by Dave Jamieson, observing that life even in non-sweatshop conditions in the freelance American economy are pretty appalling: In the years since Amazon became the symbol of the online retail economy, horror stories have periodically emerged about the conditions at its warehouses—workers faced with near-impossible targets, people dropping on the job from […]
I haven’t written about theater here for a long time. Â Let me rectify that, especially since one of the shows I recently saw was obscure enough that you probably won’t read about it elsew
Listen people, you have two choices. You can eat this month. Or you can buy my new book Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests, published by Cambridge University Press, at th