This is the grave of Karen Silkwood. Born in 1946 in Longview, Texas, Silkwood grew up in the conservative Protestant world of postwar east Texas. She was a good student and a member of the National Honor Society but even that didn't mean an easy...
Author: Erik Loomis
We've talked about this occasionally here over the years, but it's worth noting again, since the New York Times has a big thing about it, that the obscenely large and.
On June 27, 1993, the A.E. Staley Company in Decatur, Illinois chose to lock out its workers unionized with the Allied Industrial Workers of America in order to bust the.
You read a lot, you learn a lot. From the New York Review of Books, on a discussion of Umberto Grassi's new book, What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Dissent in Renaissance Italy: They were debating the nature of original sin in an apotheca in...
This is the grave of Peggy Clark. Born in 1915 in Baltimore, Margaret Clark grew up well off. Her father was a prominent anatomy professor. The family moved to Philadelphia.
The destruction of the old-line corrupt pointless Wall Street hack pro-Palestinian genocide Democratic Party by Mamdani-endorsed socialists is a wonderful thing to watch. That's not necessarily a future for all.
This is the unmarked grave of Herman Cain, who is buried near his family but does not have a marker of his own. Supposedly this is to stop publicity, but really, how many people other than myself want to see the grave of Hermain Cain?...
LA5H5981scPresident George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, one of 14 recipients of the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded Wednesday, Nov..
This is the grave of Robert Peary. Born in 1856 in Cresson, Pennsylvania, Peary would not stay in that tiny town for the rest of her life. Maybe it was.
This story is a couple of years old, but for a Sunday afternoon, it's worth a talk. One thing that people have worried about with big-time solar fields is what it would to an area's ecology. I mean, the problem with them is that if...
There was a time, early in her years in the Senate, that I thought Kirsten Gillibrand had real potential as a Democratic Party leader. She had originally won a conservative.
This is the grave of Hans Albert Einstein. Born in 1904 in Bern, Switzerland, Einstein was, well, the son of Albert Einstein. Now, I did not visit this cemetery looking.