Just because George Jones is awesome. This is not stated often enough.
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 that much about Hayes or even our presidents knowing all that much about their predecessors....
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.
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 There's not much left unpublished from the great writer I presume.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 of a collection of short stories soon to be published. After that, I doubt there...
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.
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. Essentially, Robin's argument here is that while Americans may be "free" in the sense that...
You were thinking that the real problem with Sandra Fluke is that she's a prostitute who won't show us her sex tapes in exchange for allowing her to use birth.
Speaking of the new Gilded Age, Sara Robinson has an outstanding piece on the decline of the 40 hour work week. Many interesting points. Robinson puts a lot of blame.