Month: December 2019
It’s a real wonder why more and more people believe the entire structure of policing to be so corrupted that the reject law enforcement’s moral authority entirely: Two Los Angeles police o
This is the grave of Mary Heaton Vorse. Mary Heaton was born in 1874 in New York. She grew up wealthy in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her mother had married a rich shipping magnate. He had died and she rem
Nikki Haley is an utterly detestable human being. And she’s obviously running for the Republican nomination in 2024. As such, there’s going to be a lot more of this. Nikki Haley says the C
While we’re on the theme of bad bosses, I’ve recommended John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood before, not least because it not only explains the ways in which Theranos was a unique grift but t
This is the grave of Vern Gosdin. Born in 1934 in Woodland, Alabama, Gosdin grew up singing in the church, like many future American musicians. His mother was the pianist in a local Baptist church and
When a commander says the quiet parts loud: At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers to think of white and Asian peop
Paul recently discussed Jonathan Turley, the “liberal” legal “expert” Republicans got from their book of Deadbeat magazine subscription leads to give bad faith misinformation a
On December 6, 1907 the Monongah Mining Disaster in West Virginia killed at least 362 workers but probably over 500. This remains the most deadly mining disaster in American history. Coal mining was a
- 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