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 Conde de Villanueva, home to one of the city's most popular cigar rooms. Kuntze and...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 no more.
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 with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s — I have...
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.
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 There's not much left unpublished from the great writer I presume.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 player Carlos Baerga. "I support Rick because he is a Christian and has fought for...
As someone who is marginally obsessive about reading the New York Times obituaries, and not only to track my Death List, I found this discussion of sexism within the NYT.
Corey Robin has a very important post placing the rise of anti-birth control legislation within the context of the right to privacy and corporate control over our bodies and lives..