Month: April 2021
This is your open thread for Rounds 2 and 3 of the NFL Draft. Me, I’m waiting to see where Oregon Duck safety Jevon Holland goes. He’s a very solid ball hawk safety with a lot of picks in
Oren Cass is attempting to take his case that trying to help poor people and/or working parents by giving them cash assistance is bad, actually to today’s youth with some EDGY pop-culture refere
A consistent pattern in American politics and culture is that an endless stream of social problems are offloaded onto the education system. In the world of American higher education, this pattern mani
Biden hasn’t been very good on immigration yet, though at least the push back forced him to cave immediately. But one thing we do know is that babies won’t be placed in cages apart from th
Oh OK: Two Ivy League institutions, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, are facing mounting demands to apologise and make restitution for their handling over decades of the bones of African
This is incredibly dire: Last week, Latin America accounted for 35 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the world, despite having just 8 percent of the global population, according to data compiled by
Last night. I watch the Argentine director Pablo Trapero’s 2012 film White Elephant, about a pair of priests working in the largest slum in Buenos Aires, trying to shield the poor there from the
It’s that time of the year where teams massively overdraft quarterbacks. Last year, all three QBs actually looked functional, with both Burrow and Herbert pretty awesome. Tua had his moments too
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,261
- Cancel culture, the reality
- Pay No Attention to the Man Who Keeps Yelling From Behind the Curtain
- And it’s a long day livin’ up your own ass
- Drugs and moral panics
- The JCPOA Is Dead
- Dark Brandon gives the corpse of David Broder a sad
- Ways and Means committee likely to release Trump’s midterms
- Tax Prison Labor
- Deadly Politics