Time for one of my occasional catch-all music posts. Pitchfork released a list of the Top 200 Songs of the 70s. To say the least, this represents a hipster’s modern taste without a real representation of the variety of 70s music. Way too much David Bowie, a few nods to country, jazz, and anything outside […]
Month: September 2016
On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt and Sean Kay talk Bernie, and rock and roll: What did Sanders bring to the foreign policy table? 5:15 Why the nation needs a serious foreign policy
On September 3, 1991, a chicken factory in Hamlet, North Carolina caught of fire thanks to nonexistent safety procedures, killing 25 workers and injuring another 55. This was the largest workplace dis
IANACM (I am not a campaign manager), but it seems to me that if allowing a candidate near African-Americans requires the level of planning normally associated with an organ transplant, then that is a tacit admission that the candidate is some white sheets and a couple of 2x4s away from being a one-man Klavern. Instead […]
Trump’s “taco truck on every corner” spokesperson actually provided a sound economic reason to vote against him, in addition to the obvious gustatory one — namely, think of the
I hate it when this happens: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was scheduled to speak at Capital University in Bexley at noon today but it looks like she’s running a little late. Tha
According to the Times, questions are being raised about Hillary Clinton. By something, with the reporter being a mere passive vessel for inevitable questions: A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department agreed to try to obtain a special diplomatic passport for an adviser to former President Bill Clinton in 2009, according to […]
Trump to soften his stance on illegal immigration, conceding that Mexico does indeed send over its best and brightest rapists. — bspencer (@vacuumslayer) September 1, 2016 Michael Tracey thinks your
I am conferencing this weekend, so there will be fewer words from me than usual. I am excited to report, however, the my hotel is right next to the upscale restaurant in Philadelphia’s beloved &
LGM reader asks: Can someone please explain what we should do to help with down ballot races? If I have $100 to give, who or what should I give to? This advice is curiously absent in all the discussions of how we need to concentrate on flipping the Senate and House given that Hillary looks […]
Nobody could have anticipated etc. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of wh
I have written a lot about the Investor State Dispute Settlement courts that make up a central tenet of the Trans Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements. These extra-national courts effectivel