In a rare piece of sensible legislation coming out of California, rural homeowners who rely on state firefighters for basic fire services will have to pay a $150 annual fee. This makes a tremendous amount of sense, even if California was not suffering through its...
Author: Erik Loomis
Excellent essay at Only the Cinema on Out of Sight, clearly Soderbergh's best film (though a strong case can be made for The Limey) and one of the most entertaining.
It's possible that some education "reformers" really do care about improving childhood education. But many of them care about union-busting much, much more.
The Netflix price spike annoys me as much as everyone else. I don't mind paying for my films, and indeed I do, but the combination of the on-demand and mail services is extraordinarily annoying. Jim Emerson gets at some of the key issues: The more...
I've talked before about how young progressive bloggers don't seem to have too much interest in labor history or labor issues more broadly. Of course, most of the voices in.
Like most of you, I am absolutely shocked that Lenny Dykstra would prove to be a complete fraud. Not fresh news here I know, but it actually is amazing that.
Obama endorses repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. Good for him. Let's see if it happens. It will soon, if not in 2011. Also, it'd be nice if Democrats realized that the strategies behind the gay rights movement--pushing for a program with refusal to compromise...
Over at Crooked Timber, Henry has a really interesting commentary to this Doug Henwood piece attacking the neoliberal left. Henry: Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and.
I have an article at Global Comment on fracking, expanding on some of the themes I've discussed here over the past few weeks. Regarding Andrew Cuomo's appointment of leading environmentalists.
Interesting piece on food trucks in the Times. A couple of thoughts. 1. The complaint from restauranteurs about a loss of business when food trucks pull up is mostly absurd. I say mostly because if a food truck is never there and then is suddenly...
Yes, clearly the Blue Jays must have been stealing signs for Bartolo Colon to implode...... I haven't felt this bad for the Yankees since Brian Cashman cried that the Mariners.
This was a really hard list to put together. The bench in New York is probably deeper than any other state in the nation. 1. Franklin Roosevelt--our second greatest president..