The horrors of Project 2025 are known of course, but often more in passing than in detail. People have done the work to encourage more knowledge of this attempt to move the nation back to the 19th century and one of those groups is the...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Vernon Walters, though his whole life he preferred to be called Dick. Born in New York City in 1917, Walters had a bit of an.
This is the grave of William Eaton. Born in Tolland, Connecticut in 1816, Eaton grew up there and went into business. He moved to South Carolina for awhile for business.
Last week, Farley and I attended the Oregon at Purdue game on Friday night and the Michigan at Illinois game on Saturday. A couple of thoughts: Purdue is simply a horrible football team Purdue also does not put on much of a show. Some of...
This is the grave of Anne Gorsuch Burford, a horrible human. Ugh. Born in 1942 in Casper, Wyoming, Anne McGill grew up in Denver. She went to the University of.
President Joe Biden visited the MTA Long Island Rail Road West Side Yard on Tuesday, Jan 31, 2023 to announce a federal grant of $292 million toward the Hudson Tunnel.
Phil Lesh was the Grateful Dead's bassist and probably the best pure musician in the band. He also was deeply committed to exploring other sonic worlds and used his significant resources to support a lot of difficult new music in the classical world. He didn't...
This is the grave of George Taylor. Born in 1716 in Ireland, probably Ulster but this is not certain, Taylor came to the American colonies in 1736, landing in Philadelphia..
This is the grave of Samuel McIntire. Born in 1757 in Salem, Massachusetts, McIntire was just a regular guy in his early life, a woodcarver by trade. But he proved.
Hamilton Nolan has a good piece here on the state of labor vis-a-vis politics, both in terms of the limits of what the present Democratic Party can even do and the identity that so many unionists have as Republicans that trump their union identity. Did...
Whether on the left, or among liberals, very much including LGM commenters, we are all high on our own supply when it comes to the election and I think a.
This is the grave of the M. King Hubbert. Born in 1903 in San Saba, Texas, Hubbert grew up well off enough to attend the University of Chicago, where he.