The Rhode Island Senate has passed a marriage equality bill by a 26-12 vote. Governor Lincoln Chaffee has already come out in support of it. After a long battle played out within the bizarre entity known as the Democratic Party (all 12 no votes were...
Author: Erik Loomis
We don't hear too many stories anymore like last week's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, where the death toll has now risen to 15. This is because we have.
Quiet evening here, seems like a good time to embed a Dave Flesicher cartoon. From 1939, this is The Barnyard Brat. This is part of his Hunky and Spunky series,.
Potential spoiler alerts ahead. Let me more or less agree with Coates' view on season 6 of Mad Men, or at least the first few episodes, which can be summed up by the fact that Draper's latest affair is not very interesting. Except he's lost...
A few key pieces as the West, Texas disaster settles down. Mike Elk has an editorial at the Post really getting after the media for its nonexistent coverage of the.
Max Baucus, the Democratic Party's most annoying senator, is retiring at the end of his term. While like any Democrat, I worry about holding the seat, if Brian Schweitzer runs,.
Last month, SEK brought up the racism of The Searchers, which I argued was as racist as Birth of a Nation. I decided to rewatch the film. It had been a couple of years after all. Both of my major contentions about the film were...
Dylan Matthews' list of ways to reduce violence without gun control starts with one that cannot be stated strongly enough. The decline of lead exposure over the past decades is.
Today is Earth Day, also known as the one day a year Americans pretend that they care about the environment. In 1970, Earth Day seemed like the beginning of a.
The Arctic is truly the final fishing frontier. Like in the entire history of the human race.
I'm all for the FCC being completely fine with David Ortiz saying "fuck" in his speech before the Red Sox game yesterday. On the other hand, it would be nice.
Does it go too far to call the West Fertilizer Corporation a terrorist corporation for its actions that led to the explosion that has killed at least 14 people so.