If I dare suggest that the shockingly warm temperatures in the eastern half of the country, temperatures that by a gigantic margin make up the biggest March heat wave in recorded history and quite possibly the warmest March in over 100,000 years, were indicative of...
Author: Erik Loomis
Jake Blumgart with an excellent discussion of why labor rights should be considered civil rights: It is for these reasons that Kahlenberg and Marvit argue that Title VII of the.
The European Tourist: "No-smoking areas? It's incredible!" said Michael Kuntze, a 59-year-old German day care manager who was savoring a long cigar and sipping rum and cola in the Hotel.
It's rare that I would look to the New York Times for a decent critique of American news reporting, but this is pretty good: When 24-hour news channels debuted, we wondered how they’d fill up the time. Now we have an answer. Just consider the...
Just because George Jones is awesome. This is not stated often enough.
I'm not sure a RIP is exactly in order here, but let it be known that John Demjanjuk, one of the last (possible?) links to Nazism and the Holocaust is.
Christgau with an extended essay on one of America's most excellent and underrated bands, Wussy. Who knew anything good could come from Cincinnati?
I'm not really inclined to defend Rutherford B. Hayes. But I'm annoyed that Obama repeated the stupid apocryphal tale about Hayes rejecting the telephone. This isn't because I care all.
Rick Perlstein suggests not in an excellent essay placing today's wingnuts in context. A choice passage: Over fifteen years of studying the American right professionally — especially in their communications.
I've been exposed. A comment on my Alternet piece on vibrators: Erik Loomis is a professor of leftist indoctrination, mischaracterized positions, unproven assumptions and leftist propaganda. Late night comedians do the same. You're in that league. Where is any underlying evidence of a "Republican" war...
Guernica is publishing a Jose Saramago short story in two parts. Here is the first. There's not much left unpublished from the great writer I presume. This story is part.
I was going to vote for Obama until this happened: Verona, PA - While campaigning in Puerto Rico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum received the endorsement former major league baseball.