My Catholic friends, I think it is time to go old-school next Lent. In addition to disease, the European settlers also brought Catholicism with them, and successfully converted a large proportion of the indigenous population. And the native Americans and Canadians loved their beaver meat....
Author: Erik Loomis
Modern Farmer with a long look at a major problem with the Greek yogurt industry--endless amounts of very gross whey that is quite toxic to riparian ecosystems. New York produced.
It's no secret that the United States has an aging and increasingly dangerous infrastructure. An embarrassment compared to Europe or Japan, Americans have decided that it is far more important.
Roy Hogsed's 1948 version of "Cocaine Blues" Country Music History 101 teaches everyone that Johnny Cash did not write that song, though he did a good version of it. I will save most of my Johnny Cash rant for now, which in brief is that...
Mike Elk has a really great piece on the 1-day federal contract workers strike. It's simple. First, our government should not be allowed to contract with employers who have a.
I share the general opinion of many that our industrial food system is in crisis. But I generally disagree as to the real problems. Dislike of something like GMOs (or.
Stephen Greenhouse on how American retailers like Wal-Mart and Gap are opposing proposed regulatory plans for factory conditions that produce clothing precisely because they might be legally binding and thus mean something. Now they probably aren't actually legally binding, thanks to our lovely Supreme Court,...
Atheists need more Oklahoma tornado survivor Rebecca Vitsmun, less sexist jerks like Richard Dawkins.
ESPN is a great corporation. It is ungodly profitable. It creates a mere 43% of Disney's total operating income. Think about that. All of Disney, including Disneyland and everything else.
As I talked about yesterday, there's a 1-day strike today of non-unionized government contract workers who make low wages and who SEIU ultimately wants to organize. In ye olden days of the Gilded Age, the government would use federal troops to bust strikes. The Department...
I'm glad to know that our addiction to oil from politically difficult places will soon be matched by relying on Western Sahara, an area with a long-standing independence movement against.
Today, a one day strike is taking place among non-union, low-paid government workers, some of the nearly 2 million government workers making less than $12 an hour, which I think.