Month: July 2021
The 1970s was a strange time in the movies, in the sense that you could seemingly get any damn thing on the big screen. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is a 1976 comedy about Negro
Frito-Lay workers in Topeka have been on strike over their atrocious working conditions and long hours. The union won a small victory, getting some slight improvements. This is really something. Hundr
American rail investment costs an absurd amount of money. It’s a real problem. This piece doesn’t really explore the reasons for that, but it does mention it and it’s a subject we ne
Not the Onion: Yes, elite media coddling of conservatives is certainly part of what’s going on here, but other big factors include genuine longing by that same media for the ratings bonanza that
Watching valuable beer shelf space go over to hard seltzer has been irritating. I always figured it was just another in the constant fads of “alcohol for people who don’t like alcohol̶
This is the grave of Woody Guthrie. Born in 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie’s life is almost as much legend as fact, in no small part because of his own autobiography, Bound for Glory. G
This McSweeney’s satire of NIMBYs is as vicious as it outta be: When I heard our town was considering legalizing (gulp) duplex apartments to allow more housing, I was devastated. I’m not again
Just humor him; what’s the worst that could happen? Former President Donald Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the election was corrupt in an attempt to help R
- 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