Prisoners, of course! A select group of inmates may be exchanging their prison jumpsuits for firefighting gear in Camden County. The inmates-to-firefighters program is one of several money-saving options the Board of County Commissioners is looking into to stop residents’ fire insurance costs from more...
Author: Erik Loomis
Allow me to join Paul and Scott in making this a day dedicated to higher education here at LGM. Rick Scott opens the logical next front in the conservative war.
Read of the day is John Sullivan's piece on African-Americans leaving northern cities and moving to southern suburbs, which might sound like a return to southern roots except with middle-class.
Edward Copeland: I don’t know what to say about Tracy. Katharine Hepburn once compared him to a potato (she meant it as a compliment), and that’s pretty apt. He’s solid and meaty. He’s there. But he’s not very exciting. There’s a case to be made...
Via Mother Jones is this superb site called Vulgar Army highlighting the use of the octopus in history to illustrate the evil power of corporations or other sites of power..
Al Davis, dead. I feel like I should be able to make a funny joke here, maybe something about Davis deciding that Satan would make a really fast wide receiver.
This document, which I think is a list of liquor wholesale prices from 1898, is quite interesting. You probably need to click on it to read it. First, what the hell is Missouri wine? And does it come in a mason jar? Second, I found...
Because people do terrible, terrible things to animals. This is about as bad as I've ever heard. Via Ken Cole
This has to be the easiest to watch and most pleasant set of championship series in some time. Most right-thinking people without explicit rooting ties to the other two teams.
It is good to see the most evil organization in the history of humanity vanquished at the forces of objective good, the Detroit Tigers.
Sad loss of one of the last living great civil rights leaders from the minister-dominated wing of the movement. Shuttlesworth was most noted for his organization of the Birmingham actions,.
Well, leave it to the always excellent Sesame Street to be one of the first major artistic endeavors to take on the current economic crisis, reaching to the growing number.