Sad loss of one of the last living great civil rights leaders from the minister-dominated wing of the movement. Shuttlesworth was most noted for his organization of the Birmingham actions, but throughout the movement was a tough, action-oriented leader who could push King out of his comfort zone and into more direct action. He’s also […]
Author: Erik Loomis
Well, leave it to the always excellent Sesame Street to be one of the first major artistic endeavors to take on the current economic crisis, reaching to the growing number of hungry children with a ch
Yglesias says I don’t understand the problem with techno-optimism. He argues that the real problem is that our technological revolution hasn’t gone far enough and, because of natural resou
Why someone didn’t cast Werner Herzog as a supervillain before this is beyond me. Who could be more perfect?
Not that I should expect anything better from the New York Daily News, but its opinion piece about Occupy Wall Street is utterly reprehensible:
This Bill Keller piece at the Times discusses Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun’s plan to eliminate the traditional university through technology, offering a future of higher education for at a
After doing this very thing, or more specifically saying that John Boehner playing golf with Barack Obama was like Benjamin Netanyahu playing golf with Adolf Hitler, ESPN has suspended Hank Williams, Jr. from doing his hideous Monday Night Football “Are You Ready for Some Football” intro bit. As Hank Hill once said, “Hank Williams was […]
It’s really tough to see how this could go wrong: Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said on Saturday that as president, he would consider sending American troops into Mexico to help defeat drug cartels a
Very possibly, your next senator from the state of Montana: This time around, Rehberg set his sights a little lower down the educational ladder. On a tour of a Montana elementary school (where his sis
Building on my post from the other day about what the decline of coal is going to do to the already horrible economy of southern Appalachia, Brad Plumer weighs in on the matter. Like myself, he notes that while it’s probably best for the country to get off its coal addiction and for Appalachia to […]
Via the country’s greatest news source According to the historians, by looking at things that have already happened, Americans can learn a lot about which actions made things better versus which
The other day, I watched the documentary Sputnik Mania. It was an interesting piece about the impact of Sputnik and how it moved the U.S. and USSR closer to a nuclear war. Generally, a solid documenta