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 the patient night and morning with fat bacon, rubbing every part of the body but...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 taking note of such items as a little lead, a good deal of sand, some...
Greenpeace is launching a major new campaign against the tuna industry, built around the massive deaths to other species caused by the way albacore tuna is caught: Longlines are just.
The Postal Service laying off 120,000 workers is just about the worst thing that could happen to the economy. Mark Andersen suggests a simple solution to fix the USPS problems:.
Here's another recipe of sorts for you, from Elizabeth Fries Ellet's 1871 book New Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, and Practical Housekeeper. Really more of a practical tip on how to make tainted meat edible again: "Pour a few drops of hydrochloric acid in water till...
Mark Engler has an excellent discussion of why the Verizon strike is so important, or as he puts it, the next Wisconsin: The parallel to Wisconsin is apt for several.
I can't say that I got quite as annoyed as Yglesias (or Farley for that matter) about this piece of drink snobbery that listed drinks one should never order in.
1. Thirteen unions are boycotting the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte because North Carolina is a "right to work" state. These are mostly the building trades, for whom using union labor has traditionally meant a lot more for than most of the other unions....
As the nation's smallest state and one of its least populated, not to mention being next to Massachusetts, you wouldn't expect a whole lot from Rhode Island's prominent politician list..
Sarah Jaffe has an excellent if depressing piece about the recent spike in consumer debt: So why the jump in buying on credit, if people still don't have money to.