I am presently on the beach in the Dominican Republic. Every now and then, often when on vacation, I start reading random things one can find on the Gutenberg Project, the great collection of old public domain texts. If only copyright law was updated so that material after 1923 that no one was making money […]
Month: June 2016
Awesome turn out to gather signatures to #GetJillOnTheBallot 🗳 in Pennsylvania at Philly's #Juneteenth festival! pic.twitter.com/Y1uu1WIlM7 — Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) June 18, 2
I’ve been so busy that I haven’t done one of these in several weeks. I don’t even really have any good stories to link to, but I have slowly listened to a new or long-forgotten album
The text below is supposed to be a comment in this thread, but Paul Caron tells me that for unknown technical reasons it isn’t showing up. Although I more than suspect that at this point our amiable host is reposting this stuff for entertainment purposes only, I’ll play along, for the sake of The Public […]
When I saw that Scott Adams was trending on twitter, I knew that I was in for a treat. Was not disappointed. Adams continues his tin-foil-hatted descent into parody unabated by things like self
George Will has crawled out of the bed he helped shit. Maybe he’ll go soil the libertarians’! At a Federalist Society lunch in Washington yesterday, conservative columnist and TV commentat
We’ll be seeing lots of more of this kind of thing, I would assume: Mandy Suthi, a student who voted to leave, told ITV News she would tick the Remain box if she had a second chance and said her parents and siblings also regretted their choice. “I would go back to the polling station […]
James Green, preeminent labor historian, has died. His books reached far beyond the academy to transform popular understanding of the United States’ most dramatic labor incidents. Probably his m
Because Pink Floyd makes most things better. (For everything else there’s Robitussin.)
This is a guest post by Jacob Remes, who is clinical assistant professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. His book, Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era, is available from the University of Illinois Press. He tweets at @jacremes. Charles Lee worked at a patent leather factory in the Blubber […]
Good morning, newly sovereign Britain and welcome to your new leadership team! We had Blair-Brown, then Cameron-Osborne, and now we’ll enjoy Prime Minister Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequ
Bouie has more. Now, enjoy this dissing of America’s most ridiculously pompous blowhard, and also Donald Trump. Ugh, the new Matthew Barney movie looks fucking terrible. pic.twitter.com/ln8265ZW