It's not always easy to get fresh basil if you don't live in the right area, but oddly enough you can order it from Amazon. There are two problems with a that 1.) it's Thai basil (which is lovely but has a distinctly anise flavor)...
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This is a guest post by Paul Adler, lecturer at the Harvard History and Literature program. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul's dissertation, Planetary.
Like most of you, I spend my Saturday nights watching silent films. Title cards like this one from Children of Eve are one reason. It's almost as if directors from.
I'm a little torn on this: In an attempt to keep a dialogue going surrounding the sweatshop conditions in which so many mass-produced articles of clothing are made, Norwegian publication Aftenposten has released a harrowing web documentary series that sends three fashion bloggers into the...
Oh please oh please oh please oh please let this be true: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s warning to “stay tuned” for more corruption arrests after he bagged Assembly Speaker Sheldon.
Pretty much what Murtaza Hussain says here: It’s not often that the unelected leader of a country which publicly flogs dissidents and beheads people for sorcery wins such glowing praise.
Mora County, New Mexico, right in the middle of the land grant thefts that led to the rise of Reies Lopez Tijerina and the long-term animosity to outside corporate control over the land, passed a county-wide ban against fracking in 2013. Of course, the courts...
Thanks to an unfortunate combination of factors, Maryland has elected a Republican governor. They are already getting what they asked for. Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous.
Ernie Banks, R.I.P. He was an icon, and in addition to being immensely likable he earned the status on the field and then some. Like a lot of middle infielders,.
If LGM fails, it will not be because of bandwidth, but because we have the lack of human understanding that can only be forged when someone you say "thank you for serving vodka in my martini and ketchup on my ham sandwich." If you can...
The historian Richard White, author of one of the delightfully angriest books of history in recent years, demonstrates some of the ways we have created a New Gilded Age, in.
I told Rob and Scott I was going to try to reform and be a more prolific blogger. I can be hobbled in blogging by perfectionism and the belief that.