The great free jazz drummer has passed. Here's a clip of him in possibly my favorite jazz band of all-time, Last Exit, with Peter Brotzmann, Bill Laswell, and Sonny Sharrock. This clip really features Jackson's work. I know after watching that, everyone is ready for...
Author: Erik Loomis
Alex Tabarrok's piece at Marginal Revolution about the bad economics of layaway makes sense on one level. It got all the appropriate and expected twitter hits this morning (Yglesias, Klein,.
In what is extremely rare medieval history blogging, this list of unfortunately nicknamed medieval kings is pretty great. Below we have Alfonso the Slobberer And here's Henry the Impotent
Another recent old post rediscovered makes me realize why Franklin Pierce went in hard and came out soft. Turns out he ranks pretty high in the presidential sexiness polls.
This selection from New York Police Chief George Matsell's Vocabulum, or the Rogue’s Lexicon, a collection of criminal slang, is amazing. It's available here in its entirety. Here are some.
Another Hail Satan Day Halloween is nearly upon us and Dan Lewis reminds us that the famed Halloween poisoned candy scare is a total media mythology. What about poison, which,.
After a few years of declining carbon emissions in the U.S., emissions are on the rise. The decline led to some headlines about the U.S. actually making real progress despite passing no climate bill. And I don't want to dismiss the important moves the Obama...
Won't somebody think about the plutocrats? There are millionaires, there are billionaires, and then there are the people who earn over a billion dollars in a single year. For the.
There's no reason to think that the United States is more drought-immune than ancient societies that were destroyed by it: More than 3,200 years ago, life was abuzz in and.
I had my first New York-distributed Bell's last night. Bough a 6-pack of Oarsman, had a Two-Hearted IPA at a restaurant. Forgot how great Bell's is. And it made me wonder, of the breweries with a reasonably large distribution who specialize in doing a huge...
Tom Foley's death is a worthy time to think about the late 20th century transition in western politics. Foley was really the last of a generation of western politicians who.
Illegal logging is not something the progressive community takes particularly seriously, but it's actually a very big deal, not only in Brazil (where it does get attention) but in Mexico.