Oh for Christ’s sake: In another sensational attempt to draw attention to the plight of animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is planning to launch a porn site later this year. A spokeswoman for the group says the site will feature adult content along with graphic images of animals that viewers may […]
Author: Erik Loomis
It seems that Rhode Island is losing access to several excellent beers: Earlier this year, three major craft brewers – Avery, Dogfish Head, and Great Divide – announced that they were pull
Verizon workers have called off their strike, the nation’s largest in the past 4 years, after the company agreed to temporarily extend the contract and come back to the bargaining table. The str
In what is being billed as the biggest act of climate change civil disobedience in history, a group of 70 environmental activists, including Bill McKibben and Dan Choi, are sitting-in near the White House and being arrested to protest the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. When the largest action is 70 people, it certainly suggests […]
Rule #1 of sports broadcasting–always, always, always compare a player to someone of the same racial background. At Baseball Prospectus (not sure how much of this you can see without a subscript
I don’t even know if Jimmy Carter drinks alcohol, but this Tom Philpott piece on the struggles of the beer conglomerates to keep control over the market suggests that no one did more to facilita
It’s been interesting watching how Wisconsin and Ohio have dealt with their individual union-busting Tea Party legislatures and governors. Wisconsin got all the press. In fact, I was pretty disappointed with the protests in Ohio–thousands came out, but they seemed to make little difference. They didn’t receive the media attention of those in Madison. The […]
Scott of course is right about the Green Lantern theory of domestic politics. There’s just no way Obama is going to will Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe into supporting a given policy. Giving speech
I don’t usually support vandalism, but there are exceptions to every rule. Pretty brave act in Cookeville, Tennessee.
This very detailed and well-researched Yahoo expose of Miami Hurricanes football should only bury them for the next several decades: A University of Miami booster, incarcerated for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, has told Yahoo! Sports he provided thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from 2002 through 2010. In […]
Here is a homeopathic recipe for scarlet fever from Annabella P. Hill’s, Mrs. Hill’s New Cook Book, from 1867. “As soon as the nature of the disease is ascertained, rub the patient n
Fantastic J. Malcolm Garcia piece at Guernica about the use of burn pits in Afghanistan. Essentially, the military burns everything they use in Afghanistan and Iraq. This includes everything from elec