I have some members of the finest commentariat in the blogosphere to thank: Jim N. for Still (I liked it more than Erik; not one of RT's very best but solid), Live in Dublin (unless you're a Cohen fanatic you don't need it if you...
Month: July 2016
I can't say I'm surprised that Gay Talese's new New Yorker-excerpted book did not involve such Old Journalism activities as "making some minimal effort to find out if the things.
Yglesias has a piece on a topic that alarms him, even though he isn't quite willing to deal with the larger implications. Basically, the.
Johnny Cueto's horse has died. Cueto, clearly a reader of LGM, has decided to share a picture of his dead horse with the general public. Since I am returning from the Dominican Republic today, I want to categorically deny having anything to do with the...
About a month ago, there was a huge controversy when Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 revealed that Steve Rogers was a HYDRA agent and had always been one. A lot.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece ($$) on the not-good financial state of American law schools these days: The growing number of universities that are subsidizing struggling law.
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Today’s post evaluates the impact of Title VII of the law. Title VII prohibited discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, with an exception...
The value of the British pound sterling in Swiss francs over the past 30 days. Given I'm always looking for new ways to irresponsibly lose a lot of cash, early.
When the NYT runs a series of stories about the cross between East Enders and Game of Thrones that British politics has become, it's somewhat serious. As part of the.
We will literally do anything to keep Godzilla from attaching Tokyo again pic.twitter.com/tgFAAKn3wj— (((bspencer))) (@vacuumslayer) July 1, 2016 Some people think the Sexual Revolution happened decades ago; those people are wrong. People who are paying attention know that it rages on, gaining momentum and getting...
$2.5 million. Following up on Lemieux's post about the latest, greatest attempt to stand athwart the fiberglass-topped tantrum thrower yelling STOP. Another group, called Delegates Unbound, led by GOP.
This is a really powerful piece about how indigenous peoples in South America have integrated the horrors of the rubber baron era into their oral histories and storytelling style. “After.