Let’s see who we’ve got here on Team Fascism: Pete Dawkins was the original Roger Staubach or the new Glenn Davis. He’s spent the last 40 years raking it in big time from the likes o
This is the grave of C. Wright Mills. Born in 1916 in Waco, Texas, Mills grew up in a middle-class household. His father was an insurance agent and his mother a housewife. They moved around Texas cons
I had extremely low expectations for the Biden commission on the federal judiciary, but initial reports would seem to indicate that they weren’t low enough: The Biden commission on SCOTUS reform
Black Lives Matter protests are quite nonviolent, even if they have no good moral reason to be. That’s in stark contrast to the way in which they are covered, especially by FOX and the rest of t
This is the grave of Orville Freeman. Born in 1918 in Minneapolis, Freeman grew up a Depression child. His father owned a clothing store but he went bankrupt due to the Depression. But Freeman went to
The death of Ray Fosse reminded me of the second play in a baseball game I can actually remember seeing live on TV — Pete Rose running Fosse over on the last play of the 1970 All-Star game (This
Paul’s post makes a number of good points, but slips up seriously on one. For a long time I’ve thought that it would make more sense to describe “the Sixties” as the period between Novembe
The always interesting Louis Menand has a review essay on a couple of new books that try to analyze the differences, if any, between “generations.” He points out that the whole idea of a d