Every time I listen to the old Tex Williams song "The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel for Single Girls Burned Down," I always think the relevant politicians are modern Republicans. The hypocrisy seems so perfect. I prefer the Hank Thompson version of the song.
Author: Erik Loomis
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg summarize the problems with journalists writing history: We have to fight mediocrity as well as plagiarism – the two are more closely related than you.
For now anyway. A flash poll in Missouri showed that despite Todd Akin's insane statements about rape, he still leads Claire McCaskill 45-44, according to a poll by Public Policy.
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave in Southhampton County, Virginia, led the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States, killing 60 white people before being brutally put down by the militia. This event frightened the slaveholding class that believed...
This is the greatest weather report in history: Onion Weather Center: Arizona Heatwave Forces Temporary Suspension Of Racial Profiling The best part is when they hope for tornadoes to destroy.
Am I the only one who finds the lesser known billionaire Koch Brother Bill Koch even creepier than the pair trying to buy the 2012 election? KEBLER PASS —There's a.
Republicans are really on top of their game today: Why do Ohio Republicans suddenly feel so strongly about limiting early voting hours in Democratic counties? Franklin County (Columbus) GOP Chair Doug Preisse gave a surprisingly blunt answer to the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday: “I guess...
John Markoff's Times feature from yesterday on robots replacing human labor left me deeply depressed. Increased advances in robot technology has begun to pay dividends for corporations who can replace.
Leave it to the geniuses at Politico to win the award for Worst Media Response to Todd Akin's rape comments. Dave Catanese stepped up to the plate on this one:.
I had a bit of a silent comedy fest last night. I watched Just Neighbors with Harold Lloyd, Hustling for Health with Stan Laurel, and Kid Auto Races at Venice, Calif., with Charlie Chaplin. A few notes: 1. I liked Just Neighbors the least and...
By now you've probably heard that South African police opened fire on striking platinum miners, killing 34 and wounding 78. The miners were renegades from the corporatist National Union of.
For this week's Forestry Friday, I want to talk about the town of Valsetz, Oregon. Valsetz was a tiny company town in the Oregon coast range founded in 1919. It.