It's almost too easy for ESPN to go to Eugene for this story.
Author: Erik Loomis
Rhode Island seems like it would be the nation's bluest state. While an former Republican holds the governor's office, Democrats dominate the legislature by a 6-1 margin. But it doesn't.
I now see from whom the Republican Party finds inspiration. There is a terrible legislation being considered in Honduras which would send women to jail if they use the morning.
Last May, djw and I went to the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus to see the exhibit "Controversy." In this exhibit, the OHS took 5 of their most disturbing objects and displayed them with minimal interpretation, allowing us to come to our own conclusions about...
Wow: The two Bobs, Gottlieb and Caro, have an odd editorial relationship, almost as contentious as it is mutually admiring. They still debate, for example, or pretend to, how many.
I never knew how hard Mitt and Ann Romney had it: “They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt,.
Nomination #1: Wayne LaPierre.
Wow. H/t Amanda Marcotte
This story on dogs in the military reminded me of the odd memorial at the University of Tennessee for the dogs killed in the battle to liberate Guam in 1944.
Corey Robin on the Cory Booker superhero story: The whole story speaks to a quintessentially American love of amateurism and cowboy theatrics, but it also speaks to our neoliberal age: like the superhero of comic-book lore, Booker is a stand-in, a compensation in this case...
I don't agree with all of James McWilliams' attack on localized agriculture, but it is useful correction to the fawning deification of Michael Pollan, backyard chickens, grass-fed beef, etc. All.
It's great that an essentially accurate comment about the wife of a plutocrat has started to attract the national attention away from the murder of Trayvon Martin. We need to.