We all agree that the issue of sex offenders' return to post-prison life is a tricky issue. While the definition of sex offender has become ridiculous and persecuting a 19 year old man for the rest of his life for having sex with his 17...
Author: Erik Loomis
Between 2007 and 2009, the American auto industry was on the verge of collapse, with GM and Chrysler requiring government assistance to stay afloat. The industry took advantage of this.
In Crested Butte, Colorado, the rentals have gone so out of control, in no small part thanks to AirBNB, that the people who actually work in the town are forced.
Give a shoutout to bspencer for the new banner. One can assume that the gentlemen in the picture is not only balancing our obsessions, but also riding a dead horse. Apropos of nothing except Farley saying we get an image in our posts to get...
This reprint of a 1977 profile of Reggie Jackson is amazing. It goes up there with the Ken Stabler profile. In fact, there should be more reprints of old sports.
Like the environmental post yesterday, there are a lot of interesting historical posts I've been meaning to talk about. Let's move through them all at once. 1) Extremely expensive dinners.
People who need to reconsider their priorities: It’s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn’t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the Harvard postdoc joined some like-minded aesthetes for a playful protest outside the Museum of Fine Arts. The...
A bunch of smaller stories on environmental issues that deserve some attention: 1) With buildings collapsing in Oklahoma from the plethora of earthquakes caused by fracking, maybe someone in the.
One of the most important and underreported stories over the last few weeks was the EPA setting new pesticide protections for farmworkers. The new rules, announced by EPA administrator Gina.
Carly Fiorina claims that her B.A. in medieval history she received nearly 40 years ago gives her qualifications to fight ISIS. Yeah, no. Medieval historian David Perry with the smackdown: As a medievalist, I believe that we need to study the past in order to...
Dissent's new issue is titled "Arguments on the Left" and pairs authors together to argue a point. One of the questions is the relationship of the left to the Democratic.
Given that approximately 113 percent of LGM commenters live in the greater Boston area, it was really good to meet so many of you tonight. Meeting the regulars been the.