So it seems that Rod Lurie is remaking Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. I have deep reservations about this. I love Sam Peckinpah. I will defend many of his movies (OK, not Convoy, but certainly Cross of Iron). The Wild Bunch is one of my favorite...
Author: Erik Loomis
So as all of you have seen from his 100 comments on the matter, Joe from Lowell disagreed with my slamming of Obama for backing off of tightening clean air.
Obama's decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president. While he campaigned on promoting.
Like most of New England outside of Massachusetts, Vermont has a very weak history of prominent politicians. I believe the state has contributed all of 1 person to a cabinet position, for instance. This isn't too surprising, given Vermont's size and proximity to two giants....
This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there's good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring.
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real.
As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me in strong ways--I often either love or hate what I see and get riled up...
Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and covered.
A lot of books about environmental problems tend to follow a pattern that looks something like this: 1. Talk about how screwed up everything is, going into detail about a.
Adam Gopnik is upset that his Cape Cod vacation got interrupted by a storm that didn't live up to the worst case scenario: Obviously, this was a big storm with a lot of water and wind in it; if things broke the wrong way, it...
You know what I didn't grow up with in Oregon? Hurricanes. Or tornadoes. Or floods. Or droughts. Or blizzards. Or below zero temperatures. Just soft rain, fog, and summer sun..
So the Drive-By Truckers have released a greatest hits album, although they've never had a hit per se. I'm not quite sure what the market is for this. They are.