The news that you can scan for CTE in living football players is a pretty big deal. Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks it will lead to the end of football. I am skeptical. I think it might lead to the end of upper class white kids playing...
Author: Erik Loomis
Barack Obama's second inaugural address: "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides.
Miss Idaho Potato, 1935. Everyone needs some weirdness in the evening.
I have nothing of interest to add to the inauguration discussion. But I do want to link to Atrios on the shocking significance of Obama to anyone with an understanding of American history. Whatever one thinks of Obama, it says something positive about our country...
It looks like Carmen Ortiz will not live down her role in the suicide of Aaron Swartz. The fact that she's still defending the prosecution and the legal process is.
Oh man, this is great. Remember back, a long long time ago. There was a man. He was me. And he said he wanted Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick.
What are you all up to this lovely Friday night? Going out to dinner with a special someone? Hanging out at the bar with your friends? Putting together syllabi for the semester that starts next week (me)? Whatever your plans, you need some fresh insults...
Robert Chew, who played Prop Joe in The Wire, has passed. One of the greatest roles in one of the greatest television shows in history.
Jon Meacham, presidential biographer and evidently person who does not understand the presidencies he studies, offers some really bizarre advice for Barack Obama in his second term: With his second.
This open letter to John McCain and Jeff Flake was both touching and disturbing in a number of ways: Thursday night I heard a banging knock at the door. I looked through the window and immigration agents asked me to open the door, conducting an...
Why this story isn't getting more attention, I don't know. But Republicans are openly seeking to rig the 2016 elections. RNC Chair Reince Priebus is encouraging Republicans who control the.
On January 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, granting federal employees the right to collective bargaining for the first time. Full text here. This began the.