One key step to improving sanitation and thus people's lives in the developing world is spreading the sanitary toilet, arguably the greatest technological innovation in history. This Bloomberg piece is a bit too magic-bullet oriented for me, as so many articles on the developing world...
Author: Erik Loomis
Dear Brown People of Northern New Mexico, Please let me move into your communities so I can find meaning in my spiritually dead consumerist life. I will still consume your.
The level of stupidity over these Ozzie Guillen pro-Castro remarks makes me want to jump off a bridge. I love that the Marlins hired a manager with a known history.
Very interesting read at Lapham's Quarterly by my former colleague Greg Shaya about the role of the press in modern society. An excerpt: What of Vietnam and television? It is offered up as a lesson of media and war: when the American public sees American...
No day is complete without Soviet propaganda. This translates as "The path of talent on Capitalist shores / The path of talent on Socialist shores" And let's face it, it's.
I've been waiting for about 5 years for Cesar Chavez's public reputation to face serious challenge. After Chavez's death, he became a hero nearly on the level of Martin Luther.
America's shittiest artist, dead at 54.
The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that.
In case you want to know who the ALEC staffers are and, say, want to follow their Twitter feeds/harass them for being evil, this guide is for you.
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,...
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.