The resounding success of Mike Napoli after years of Mike Scioscia trying his best not to use him and them dumping him for nothing has finally put a dent into the idea that Scioscia is a brilliant manager. Scioscia finally spoke about it today and...
Author: Erik Loomis
One doesn't usually look to Pop Matters for political essays, but this piece praising Michael Moore and lambasting Jon Stewart is interesting. Michael Moore is one of the few heroes.
Most of us have a strong impression of Black Power--dudes in sunglasses and afros holding big guns and talking about violence. That was the impression that a lot of left-leaning.
You've heard of racial determinism. But have you ever seen racial determinism combined with pie? I thought not. This 1902 New York Times article about the relationship between pie and national success will fill this gap in your knowledge. Among other things, it not only...
The latest in Ethan Persoff's fantastic series of social issue related comic books is out, this time a piece of propaganda from the Canadian nuclear power industry. I don't know.
I'm really glad the Huffington Post boycott has ended so I can again write about their terrible medical coverage. Why does the site give such an extensive platform to complete.
Last weekend, while I was in Oakland, I wandered over to Occupy Oakland for a bit. They had an interesting sort of public history exhibit. Someone had strung up a wire between two poles where people could attach notes about Oakland's radical history. There were...
Colin Snider, my old blogging partner from Alterdestiny, has started a new blog dedicated to Latin American issues. It's been up for a month or so now with many excellent.
According to Mike Elk's Twitter feed (@mikeelk), the Newspaper Guild and National Writers Union have called off the boycott of Huffington Post as Arianna Huffington has agreed to a statement.
Cara Pike at Climate Access has a good run-down of the reasons, outside of the broken legislative process which I think is a relatively small problem in dealing with climate change, why the United States is such a laggard nation in fighting global warming. In...
Sarah Jaffe on the atrocious Andrew Cuomo and his hard work to protect millionaires from taxes. I especially like when Cuomo compares his own fight to eliminate New York's millionaire.
In an incredibly great piece of public health news, researchers are getting very close to developing a vaccination against malaria. The first study showed the risk of malaria cut in.