I absolutely wish Ed Markey had not run for another term in the Senate. He's great, but he's 80, Massachusetts has a deep bench, and others can do this job. More to the point, Ayanna Pressley was ready to go. But Markey's ego got in...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Isaac Newton. Hmmm....what even to say here to give Newton justice? Well, I'll throw a few things out there and you all can do what.
Here’s my reading list for August. This is last month’s list and you can follow it back from there. A very good month of reading for me. PROFESSIONAL READING: David-James Gonzales, Breaking.
This is the grave of John Collier. Born in 1884 in Atlanta, Collier grew up wealthy but lost both parents by the time he was 16, his mother from pneumonia and his father probably by suicide. Still, the family money remained and Collier got out...
As I've worked through Kleber Mendonca Filho's films--2019's astounding Bacurau, 2023's film essay about growing up in Recife during the dictatorship, Pictures of Ghosts--I've thought, wow, this is really one.
This season has been outright horrible for Seattle Mariners fans. A team that went to Game 7 of the ALCS last year and had huge hopes for this year has.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently rejoined DSA after many years. This clearly demonstrates two things. First, she will run for something that's not her district in 2028 and second, DSA is now popular enough that she sees it in her political interests to be a member. A...
Any time you see Idaho in the news, you know it's going to be for the most batshit reasons. But while insanity has always been at the core of Americanness,.
I talked last week about some of the horrors of the new extreme fire regime on European forests. In the American West, it means that many of the forests are.
This is the grave of Abbott Lawrence Lowell. Born in 1856 in Boston, A. Lawrence Lowell, as he would usually be known, was born into massive Boston money, with all the Brahmin background that implies. All the kids were expected to do big things and...
United Auto Workers membership is presently engaging in an election to see if they will reelect Shawn Fain. I hope they do. But it's a divided union. Fain is part.
This is the grave of Lucille Lortel. Born in 1900 in New York City, Lucille Wadler grew up in a Jewish immigrant family, but one that was upwardly mobile. Her.