Verizon workers have called off their strike, the nation's largest in the past 4 years, after the company agreed to temporarily extend the contract and come back to the bargaining table. The strike began because Verizon decided to crush the union. It didn't succeed. Instead,...
Author: Erik Loomis
In what is being billed as the biggest act of climate change civil disobedience in history, a group of 70 environmental activists, including Bill McKibben and Dan Choi, are sitting-in.
Rule #1 of sports broadcasting--always, always, always compare a player to someone of the same racial background. At Baseball Prospectus (not sure how much of this you can see without.
I don't even know if Jimmy Carter drinks alcohol, but this Tom Philpott piece on the struggles of the beer conglomerates to keep control over the market suggests that no one did more to facilitate the microbrew revolution than our favorite Baptist president. First, this...
It's been interesting watching how Wisconsin and Ohio have dealt with their individual union-busting Tea Party legislatures and governors. Wisconsin got all the press. In fact, I was pretty disappointed.
Scott of course is right about the Green Lantern theory of domestic politics. There's just no way Obama is going to will Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe into supporting a.
I don't usually support vandalism, but there are exceptions to every rule. Pretty brave act in Cookeville, Tennessee.
This very detailed and well-researched Yahoo expose of Miami Hurricanes football should only bury them for the next several decades: A University of Miami booster, incarcerated for his role in.
Here is a homeopathic recipe for scarlet fever from Annabella P. Hill's, Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book, from 1867. "As soon as the nature of the disease is ascertained, rub.
Fantastic J. Malcolm Garcia piece at Guernica about the use of burn pits in Afghanistan. Essentially, the military burns everything they use in Afghanistan and Iraq. This includes everything from electronics to plastic bags to feces. Not surprisingly, this is making a lot of people...
I am very angry with myself. About a year ago, I was in a Seattle bar with djw. We were talking about the 2012 Republican presidential season. I noted that.
Another entry tonight from Elizabeth Fries Ellet's New Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, and Practical Housekeeper, from 1871. This bit is on adulterated sugar. "The sugar, if it be brown, without.