Someone is trying to get in good with our robot overloads by developing robot cats they can pet.
Author: Erik Loomis
Too many worthy stories today, too little time to write them up. If humans playing football suffer concussions, why don't woodpeckers? Oliver Stone directing a film about Robert Moses based.
Yesterday, Occupy Oakland approved a motion for a general strike, to be called for November 2. I'm curious to see where this goes. General strikes have always had trouble gaining.
Why on earth would Mitt Romney wade into the SB-5 fight in Ohio? John Kasich's union-busting bill is extremely unpopular and is about to go down to a crushing defeat. Given Obama's somewhat surprising resiliency in the southern and western states he won (and also...
I've been making it through the many Looney Tunes collections over the past couple of years. Last night, I watched "I Love to Singa" for the first time in a.
On this date in 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, the leader of the movement known as Bacon's Rebellion, died of dysentery. This effectively ended the rebellion, an event that helped entrench slavery.
Seriously? When Taylor Branch and his wife, Christy, exchanged vows in 1978, Branch had to do more than promise to remain faithful through sickness and health: he also had to give up football. Branch had been a standout high school football player in Atlanta before...
With the World Series off tonight, I watched Three on a Match, the 1932 film starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. It's not great, despite the.
The resounding success of Mike Napoli after years of Mike Scioscia trying his best not to use him and them dumping him for nothing has finally put a dent into.
One doesn't usually look to Pop Matters for political essays, but this piece praising Michael Moore and lambasting Jon Stewart is interesting. Michael Moore is one of the few heroes of contemporary American culture. He is a true patriot, a serious populist, and a clever...
Most of us have a strong impression of Black Power--dudes in sunglasses and afros holding big guns and talking about violence. That was the impression that a lot of left-leaning.
You've heard of racial determinism. But have you ever seen racial determinism combined with pie? I thought not. This 1902 New York Times article about the relationship between pie and.