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 just never going to come back. On a gentle slope on the western side of...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 father was in apparel, like just about every other recent Jewish immigrant to the city,...
This is some legit amazing footage right here--Dolly Parton walks into a pub in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland in 1999 and this is what happens. It is well worth your.
The polling industry may have value, but it's just another part of the evil of the 24 hour news cycle and our sick addiction to political media. Everyone is desperately.
Wow, it's college football season! A few rules for these threads and for the NFL threads that will start in a couple of weeks. This is NOT the place for you to complain about "sportsball" or to signify your superiority to those of us who...
Such a premise seems dubious to me. But....there is an interesting comparison here. Basically the argument is that for all the talk that Americans defeated Big Tobacco, in fact, it.
Look, even if I wanted to turn my students into little commies, they aren't going to listen to me. It might be true that college graduates are more liberal than.
This is the grave of Oscar Lewis. Born in 1914 in New York, Oscar Lefkowitz grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. His father was a rabbi. Unusually, the family did not stay in the city. His father bought a farm upstate and raised his...
If we have a King Haakon VIII in Norway, don't we need some footage of King Haakon VII? Oh, I think we do and I think it is outright demanded.
I have no problem at all with acknowledging the white genocide against Native peoples. I've argued many times that it and slavery are the foundational principles of America and we.