This is the grave of John Dioguardi. A genuinely horrible human is in this grave. Giovanni Dioguardi, later known as John Dioguardi or Johnny Dio in the underworld, was born in 1914 in Manhattan. By t
This is the mass grave for victims of the 1862 Wilmington, North Carolina yellow fever epidemic. Yellow fever is a horrible disease. Before the discovery of that it was mosquito-borne, it was even mor
I await the Opus Dei court deciding that this is indeed kidnapping. NEW: Starbucks is taking its union-busting to an unprecedented level. A South Carolina store manager is pressing kidnapping & as
This is the grave of Cecil Andrus. Born in Hood River, Oregon in 1931, Andrus and his siblings grew up near Junction City, Oregon, just outside of Eugene. This was a very poor family. The farm didn
This is good news: Workers at a trio of well-regarded pizzerias in Austin, Texas, did something on Thursday rarely seen in local, stand-alone restaurants: They informed their managers that they intend
Thanks to right-wing extremism, anything in the world can now be part of the culture war. That very much includes wildfire. This article about how people in rural northern California see wildfire is p
Last weekend, I went to Newport Jazz Festival for the first time. I just went on Sunday. That was probably plenty. Some of it was great and some of it reinforced critiques I’ve had of it from th
Green capitalists are still capitalists and still hate unions as much as Carnegie or Morgan or Ford or any other capitalist in history. Organic frozen food company Amy’s Kitchen dealt workers anothe