Month: June 2021
I confess to not being the biggest Marx Brothers fan. Chaos as comedy is something that has a fairly short shelf life for me. But I have to also confess that the first half of Horse Feathers is pretty
Thomas Boswell, a towering figure in sports journalism for decades, is retiring today from his job as a Washington Post columnist. Summarizing his legacy is a task better suited to a writer of greater
In anticipation of Erik’s much fuller treatment of this news: I could not dig; I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.
Well, at least he’s already served more prison time than he ever expected to for sexually assaulting many women: Bill Cosby had his conviction for sexual assault overturned by a Pennsylvania app
I’ve done a good bit of reading and secondary source research on the Sandinista Revolution over the years. One thing that stands out is that even among the scholars, Daniel Ortega is a complete
Any good will Biden got from environmentalists for the end of the Keystone XL Pipeline is disappearing very fast because he is supporting the Line 3 Pipeline, which is just bad, which also goes across
Just wanted to start by saying that I’ve been making lots of deviled eggs lately, and I’m not sure why. I’ve just been craving them. And they’re a huge hit with the fam. But ev
I’ve done a bit of preliminary research on the topic of the role of air conditioning in American history and culture, and was surprised to discover that there seems to have been so little writte
- 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