So the ESPYs are super dumb and self-serving. Unless Norm Macdonald is the host. If you've never watched his monologue from when he hosted in 1998, you really should do so. Not only do you get reminded of sports scandals of the past--Anthony Mason!--but there's...
Author: Erik Loomis
I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States as a good history book, but it's power and importance can't be denied. And that's.
I shouldn't be surprised by Kevin Drum defending the McDonald's budget for its workers, but it's pretty irritating. Moreover, his defense is awful weak, as is that of Tim Lee.
On July 17, 1944, a munitions explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California killed 320 soldiers, mostly African-Americans loading munitions onto ships. This spurred them to demand improved conditions. When conditions did not improve, a group refused to load the munitions....
Although I could do without the big sweeping Hollywood music in the trailer, Steve McQueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's slave narrative 12 Years a Slave looks to be incredibly promising..
Pareene on ABC hiring Jenny McCarthy to co-host The View: McCarthy certainly has a more pleasant, or at least less confrontational, television style. Really the only problem with hiring her.
I'm not sure if "great" is exactly the word for the bluesman T-Model Ford, but "interesting" certainly qualifies. He has died at the age of 94.
That McDonald's. It's such a sweet New Gilded Age corporation, helping its employees learn how to live on its minimum wage salaries. Here's the sample budget journal: As Robyn Pennacchia.
Although I would have rather seen the filibuster destroyed for presidential appointments, it's a relatively minor victory for Democrats that the Republicans caved on the seven nominations. Some politicos are.
I mentioned it below, but Richard Cohen's openly racist op-ed deserves its own post: I don’t like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing...
David Brooks wins that title with most of his articles, but his piece fretting about men in the economy is particularly bad. After a long pointless discussion of The Searchers,.
Does it go too far to compare stand your ground laws with slave patrols? Given the ability of George Zimmerman to slay a random nonthreatening black kid like Trayvon Martin.