Hard to see the problem here..... Florida leads the pack in passing bills written by the gun lobby that block any sensible attempt to control the purchase and use of firearms. The dangerous folly of these laws was on display in the Trayvon Martin shooting,...
Author: Erik Loomis
Sharon Friedman makes a very good point about the language of environmentalism, particularly the use of the term "virgin forests." Calling anything involving forests "virgin" muddles the concepts of "old-growth,".
UMWA President Cecil Roberts embarrassed himself and his union on a West Virginia radio station: “The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in.
The great Italian novelist (though many of his novels take place in Portugal) is no more. Sad news. A writer worthy of the Nobel.
Not to toot my own very limited horn, but for any of you all in New Mexico, on April 14, I am speaking on blogging and history at the University.
Van Jones' piece at The Nation confirms in my mind that the man is little more than a continual platitude, offering soft and spongy rhetoric in the place of deeper.
On this date in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray while in Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers. In the spring of 1968, Martin Luther King was organizing his Poor People's Campaign. Hoping to bring attention...
Elizabeth Kolbert has an interesting essay in The New Yorker about the ethics of parenting, wondering whether if there are ever ethical reasons to have children. Ethics certainly don't determine.
The last structure from the early New York film industry is in trouble. The old Vitagraph studio lot in Brooklyn is long gone, but its smokestack remains. It is falling.
A couple of very interesting Civil War related items this morning. First, the Disunion series published one of its more touching and excellent pieces, on the high suicide rates among Confederate soldiers. This is just great. Second and more important is the revised analysis of...
Various links and such from the last few days as I catch up on sleep/the world after my time in Madison. 1. Historians are having a collective orgasm today over.
Forgive the absence, I was at a conference in Madison which was a great time made greater by an unexpected trip up to Stevens Point along the Wisconsin River yesterday..