Great little piece in the Times on the Los Angeles River. The L.A. River has been forgotten about for most of Los Angeles' history, and certainly since the city stole all the water from the Owens Valley (something most remembered from the film Chinatown) meant...
Author: Erik Loomis
As a man trying to raise his child as a vegetarian, David Sirota dislikes fake meat products: ...the next time you go shopping, imagine what a kid gleans from veggie.
I meant to comment on this a couple of days ago, before I went away on a brief vacation, but I didn't have time. So even though the news is.
Jeffery Hirsch savages Joe Nocera's worthless column from yesterday, where Nocera says that Democrats cost the nation jobs because the NLRB is forcing Boeing to stop retaliating against its unions by moving jobs to non-union plants in South Carolina. In Nocera's mind, this is not...
In an utterly unsurprising move, the AFL-CIO has started its own Super PAC. It intends to compete with the big corporate Super PACs, trying to use its considerable lobbying power.
This Disunion piece on John C. Breckinridge was somewhat more charitable than I would have been for a man who more than almost anyone embraced committing treason to defend slavery..
Some items of note from the last week: 1. More than 90% of 62,000 United Food and Commercial Workers in southern California grocery stores voted to authorize a strike because the big chains, who are negotiating as a single unit, are looking to slash their...
Oh for Christ's sake: In another sensational attempt to draw attention to the plight of animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is planning to launch a porn.
It seems that Rhode Island is losing access to several excellent beers: Earlier this year, three major craft brewers - Avery, Dogfish Head, and Great Divide - announced that they.
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,...
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.