Tonight's entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in 1937. Some of this could actually be slightly disturbing to you so you are warned....
Author: Erik Loomis
More Gilded Age pugilism--except tonight it is boxing cats! The past is a strange place.
Philip Bump has a nice run-down of the important things to look for in the upcoming farm bill/massive subsidization of agribusiness thanks to the incredible power held by rural state.
Neil Munro, briefly famous for interrupting Obama last week since he knew the president wasn't going to take questions, refuses to take questions about his actions.
So on May 11, Scott wrote this post getting after Glenn Greenwald for his endorsement of an extremely insipid Matt Taibbi piece arguing that Romney was really a moderate. Glenn,.
Time to take care of this blog's failure to pay attention to Gilded Age pugilism.
You can always count on Digby to completely tear apart someone like Fareed Zakaria, who blathered on about the need for Democrats to follow the lead of Andrew Cuomo and destroy public sector unions. It's all about the middle-class sacrificing when you are rich. Zakaria...
Edward Rothstein, last seen at LGM deciding that the state of Colorado actually does have history, drops a real stinker today. Rothstein goes to Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, and tells.
Updating yesterday's post that used the firing of Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, as a jumping off point for thinking about why we think rich people know.
Good music for a Saturday night. Also, Sesame Street!
And you thought a wacko interrupting the president was the most embarrassing thing that would happen to The Daily Caller this week. Not even close. This is quite literally one.
Siva Vaidhyanathan has a good piece at Slate about the absurd firing of University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan. Despite widespread support from the university community, Sullivan was canned last.