A little morning deliciousness for you, from 1950 and via the American Gas Association. America’s finest food from America’s finest era of cooking.
Author: Erik Loomis
Karen Santorum, wife of everyone’s favorite man, edited a lovely-looking book entitled Everyday Graces: A Child of Good Manners. Forward by Joe Paterno. A child of good manners accepts the abuse
I’m sick and tired of trying to meet our commentariat’s demands for more posts about Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. To shut you all up about these vital nations, I’m linking to
An iconic moment in environmental history is the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam. San Francisco, always desperate for fresh water supplies, looked to the Sierra Nevada to quench its thirst by the late 19th century. However, most of the Sierra’s water was owned by mining companies, used for hydraulic mining, by which high-pressure water […]
Noted VERY SERIOUS POLITICAL WEBSITE (TM) Politico only employs the finest reporters. Take its political reporter Donovan Slack. In reporting on Obama’s visit to Wisconsin today, she determined
Santorum’s billionaire supporter Foster Friess on contraception: Back in my day, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly. No,
To continue on the theme of late 19th/early 20th century sexuality and its implications for today, you all must read this absolutely outstanding Michelle Goldberg piece in The Nation on Margaret Sanger’s legacy. Sanger, the godmother of birth control in this country, was motivated to fight for legal contraception because of stories like this: It […]
So this last half of this week is going to see a series of posts on Gilded Age/Progressive Era sexuality. I’m teaching it tomorrow, I was thinking of Comstock, there are some stories to link to,
So says noted maverick John McCain. In fact, this was McCain’s contribution to the floor debate over the clearly qualified federal judge nominee Adalberto Jose Jordan. Dana Milbank uses the Repu
When I started writing over here, I had planned to run a series of my best posts at Alterdestiny since no one read them at the time. In fact, that’s why I had so many “Most Prominent Politician” posts when I first started–I was just taking them from over there. Speaking of which, look for […]
When discussing the Flint sit-down strike of 1937 last weekend, I noted John Nance Garner’s support for using soldiers to bust the strike. It reminded of just how awful Garner was. And how close
The brilliance of the Republican strategy to go all in with the Catholic bishops on denying birth control to women is paying off major dividends. If you are a Democrat. A new poll shows absolutely no