We’ve never watched a music video in this series. So let’s change that with Run-DMC’s “King of Rock.” The funny about this is that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is such a bad museum that it’s barely any better than the one portrayed in the video.
Month: February 2021
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes got a lot of attention for their first-past-the-post insider account of the 2016 campaign, which essentially argued that Hillary Clinton lost because she was a bad candi
Maybe Ted Cruz can join him there until things quiet down enough for him to go back to Cancun: In a warm day in late January, Luke Coffee invited me to join him on the patio of an Italian eatery at a
Jamelle Bouie had an excellent column the other day about the long history of unionism in Alabama. As the Amazon campaign takes off in Alabama, it turns out there is a real history of radical and usually Black-based unionism in that state. In fact, Alabama probably has a longer history of union activism than any […]
While I am skeptical that Democrats will really prioritize pro-labor bills before literally every other part of their agenda (hello Virginia legislature!), it’s important that what is at the top
There is so much conversation about racism in science and technology today because that very real history is leading to major policy impacts as people of color are volunteering for the COVID vaccine a
I noticed that the Pending file on Disqus was filling up unusually fast, and it appears that someone somewhere had declared “asshole” off limits. Obviously, this aggression cannot stand. LGM commentariat, YOUR ASSHOLES ARE FREE AND WELCOME HERE!
This account of life at Hotel Trump is quite entertaining: And when the star appeared, you had to stick to the script. A “Standard Operating Procedure” document, recently obtained by Washingtonian
This is the grave of Robert Cornelius. Born in Philadelphia in 1809, Cornelius grew up reasonably well off. His father was Dutch immigrant silversmith who opened a lamp manufacturing company. Corneliu
Allright, this should be it: A second former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is accusing him of sexual harassment, saying that he asked her questions about her sex life, whether she was monogamous in her relationships and if she had ever had sex with older men. The aide, Charlotte Bennett, who was an executive […]
In our last film club, we watched the ridiculous National Right to Work Committee film Women Must Weep, a laughable but horrifying piece of hackwork about a strike in Princeton, Indiana. Outraged and
Pour one out for the memory of Prince Markie Dee of The Fat Boys, who died at the age of 52. I guess this was not a group of guys destined to live to 90, but it’s still a big loss from a band th