Month: January 2018
It’s disturbing but not surprising that the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency dedicated to ethnic cleansing and filled with fascist agents is led by a fascist. Last s
This is the grave of David Clough. Born in 1846 in Lyme, New Hampshire, he grew up poor on a farm that relied on a lot of logging. He went into that as a career and moved to Minnesota in 1872, just be
A union organizer friend of mine was in Silicon Valley recently. He walked into a beer bar and was struck that this bar employed no bartenders. Instead, patrons pour their own beer. I was unaware that
The more evidence that emerges for Trump’s unfitness for office, the more tightly the Republican Party circles the wagons in his defense: Bannon made himself the scourge of Republican Party offi
Upton Sinclair wrote his 1906 famous book to expose the horrible lives of slaughterhouse workers. But, much to his disappointment, Americans focused upon the horrible meat they were ingesting and didn
When I wrote the post about Gillibrand yesterday, I didn’t know it would serve as the preemptive rebuttal to one of the worst columns you’ll read all year: The larger question about Gillib
For my money, the second-most vapid and clueless phrase to come out of the 2016 election cycle, second only to “Make America Great Again,” was the liberal rejoinder that “America is
Above: Photo of two young women smoking marijuana in a park in Leakey, Texas. From the EPA Documerica series of the 1970s. In the 1970s, marijuana legalization proponents were very confident that lega
- Well don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
- LGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
- George Atiyeh
- E Pluribus Something
- Donald Trump with a law degree
- Trump’s COVID catastrophe
- Big 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs
- This Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004
- The man who wanted to be on TV
- Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln