This evidently is a real study (PDF at link). The American Association of Wine Economists, who published this working paper, is run out of NYU. And the answer to the question in the title is sort of, in that they tend to like the pate...
Author: Erik Loomis
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt found guilty of genocide. May the evil old monster die in prison. Of course, his supporters in the United States still hold major positions.
This came up in comments to the anti-Chinese post from yesterday. Some of you have no doubt seen this, others have not. From Time Magazine, December 1941.
One thing about Texas is how strongly its residents buy into the whole mythologizing bullshit about how great it is. This is true even of a lot of lefty Texans, as I found out in my 3 years there. It's eyerolling at best. At worst,...
On May 10, 1993, the Kader toy factory in the Nakhom Pathom province of Thailand, just outside of Bangkok, caught on fire, killing 188 workers, severely injuring over 500, and.
There's no question that one lesson from the fertilizer explosion in West, Texas is that we need much harsher fines and criminal statutes against corporations when workers die, as well.
Building off my Chinese Exclusion Act post from the other day, here is a good example of pure, unadulterated anti-Chinese racism, from the New York Times, August 26, 1885. In short, they all look the same. Credit to the Times for making this stuff available,...
Oh for the love of all things holy. Of course it would be a self-proclaimed anarchist who developed the 3-D printed gun. Further context here.
Digby on the endless wrongness of those who project when Medicare will become insolvent.
This collection of cat images used during the suffrage movement is outstanding. Thanks to djw for sending this my way.
Jonathan Chait makes an interesting argument for Obama as "the environmental president," but I think it is the wrong question to ask. Chait's argument is that despite the failure of.
Remember the West, Texas factory explosion. It's been 2 weeks and the story has almost completely disappeared from the media while CNN continued its 24-hour coverage of the latest details.