Hey look at me, getting a music notes column out on time. I recently read Alex Harvey's Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles. Focusing on Waits' early years as a musician, up to the making of Swordfishtrombones, I thought it a...
Author: Erik Loomis
I don't get a whole lot of the very top students from high schools in my college classes because most of those kids are not going to mid-range public schools,.
Of course.... Former President Trump on Friday accepted the endorsement of the nation’s largest police union and indicated he would pursue policies in a second term to bolster police immunity.
The historian Benjamin Fong has a good piece on the failures of unions to engage in successful large-unit organizing. Despite all the positive talk about unions these days, it hasn't really made much of a difference in terms of revitalizing the labor movement. One issue...
As Tallahassee renders its garments and gnashes their teeth, happening to only the single most loathsome fan base in the country, as anyone who has dealt with FSUTwitter can attest,.
This is the grave of Johnny Pacheco. Born in 1935 in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Pacheco grew up around music. His father Rafael was a bandleader who led Orquesta Santa Cecilia..
So I very much get why people in the political game professionally want to shoot themselves over how polls are seen, in the sense that for most people, the quality of a poll is entirely dependent upon their personal political preferences. This has nothing to...
I hate to tell people this, but everything humans to do destroy the ecosystem also will come back and destroy humans. In 2006, a deadly fungus started killing bat colonies.
As I've said many times, any capitalist who refuses to allow unions into their plants doesn't care about saving the planet. It's just more rapacious profit. Simply put, if you.
Here's the second half of our NFL preseason podcast, focusing on the NFC. Should be fun tonight with the NFL starting! Unfortunately, I have to finish an article before I can watch, so we will see, but Chiefs-Ravens, dang, that's a heck of an opener!...
As you may have heard, Tim Sheehy, the Republican candidate for Senate in Montana, was caught on tape making grotesquely racist remarks about Native Americans. Tim Sheehy, the Republican Senate nominee.
I thought I was fairly familiar with the atrocities of American cuisine, but I had missed the glory of Altoona pizza. So what you got here is a square crust.