Hiltzik has another good piece, this time featuring maps of preventable diseases to show the impact of the anti-vaccination foolishness. The general outlines we know here since we have slammed on the anti-vaxxers many times. But I thought this was an important point we probably...
Author: Erik Loomis
If there's one thing the world needs, it's Martha Stewart's website telling people how to host punk rock parties. The comment section is really great here. A couple of weeks.
Evidently, raccoons in the city are smarter than rural raccoons because the city teaches them so much, primarily how to get at food. Personally, I fear they will ally with.
Because of course you want to watch tourist films from 1976 promoting Bombay, now Mumbai. Need to get that song on itunes. Via
And we keep marching on into the New Gilded Age: Once upon a time, the American economy worked for everybody, and even the middle class got richer. But this story.
Forcing impoverished graduate students and adjunct faculty to travel to a random expensive city for 30 minute first round job interview is one of the least morally defensible parts of.
I've talked before about how national parks, and especially the classic nature parks of the American West, are whitened places, with indigenous histories erased and indigenous people evicted. That's certainly true, but those white people needed servants and sometimes they left a bit of evidence...
Sherpas are poor. So they take what jobs they can get. Those jobs are carrying stuff for rich white people around the world who want to climb mountains. Serving as.
Super cool: Hidden for more than 90 years beneath the rolling sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, an enormous, plaster sphinx from the 1923 blockbuster movie "The Ten Commandments" has been.
I was unaware of the Dizzy Gillespie for president campaign in 1964. His idea for Miles Davis as head of the CIA certainly would have made for a funkier agency by the late 60s. And who could oppose that?
OK, no one would really say that Houston is an urban utopia. But this op-ed in the Houston Chronicle actually does make some good points, even if it can be.
Last year, New York City passed a law protecting pregnant workers from getting fired. Unfortunately, employers are trying to ignore it and are firing workers when they get pregnant. There.