This is the grave of George Weiss. Born in 1894 in New Haven, Connecticut, Weiss was a middle class kid. His family ran a grocery store. He was a great student and managed to get into Yale, but had to leave to help with the...
Author: Erik Loomis
Listen, someone like Elon Musk openly wondering why Democrats aren't getting assassinated while also holding massive multi-billion dollar government security contracts is the inevitable wage of neoliberalism. The government can.
One of the only times the major American media talks about the rural West is during wildfire season, which has been sadly active this year. One question that rarely gets.
I have to go back to an issue that made me mad a few months ago, which was how long it took the New York Times to run an obit for Neil Goldschmidt, a major scandal-ridden politician who if we were on the east coast,...
I mentioned the other day that Boeing and the Machinists had come to a deal. Well, a deal requires the membership ratifying the contract that the members very much did.
This is the grave of Willis Van Devanter. Born in 1859 in Marion, Indiana into a Dutch family, Van Devanter was a Dutch Calvinist his whole life. Oh boy was.
Well this was cool. I have been in Eugene the last few weeks with family and this is not a great music town. In fact, Bend has significantly surpassed Eugene to be the second best music town in Oregon, behind Portland obviously. This despite Bend...
I can't say this is an open thread because if I do, asshole commenters will talk about politics even though they know the rules.....You'd have to be a terrible person.
On September 14, 1889, Black guano workers on Navassa Island rose up and killed five white bosses in an act of desperation in revolt against a racist work regime. Working.
This is the grave of Alvin and Heidi Toffler. Born in 1928 in New York City, Alvin Toffler grew up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the child of Polish immigrants. It was a family that embraced literature and big ideas and the kid picked...
I have nothing but respect for Jon Tester, but he is finished: New @CookPolitical: Sen. Jon Tester (D) moves from Toss Up to Lean R. Full #MTSen analysis by @JessicaTaylor:.
For years, a lot of people, including the neoliberal Democrats, wanted to run higher education "like a business." This was constantly in the conversation when I started as a professor.