SEK is departing from an undisclosed location in the Pacific Northwest. He saunters up to the Alaska Airlines counter. SEK: Hi! I'm four-and-a-half hours early for my flight to Orange County. TICKET AGENT: Can I see your ID? (SEK hands it to her.) Here you...
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As articles pour in marking the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, many focus on the Seattle scene of the early 1990s with its flannel and dark lyrics. Of course, Seattle's.
Alleged sensibly moderate Republican Michael Gerson displays some actual sensible moderation: Try to imagine a parent-daughter conversation about sexual restraint and maturity that includes the words: “Honey, I’m going to.
On September 17, 1989, 98 miners and one minister conducted a peaceful takeover of the Pittston Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant. The Pittston strike was one of the most brutal and hard-fought of the last three decades. The sit-in was part of a 10 month...
Via Chris Bertram, this post from David Graeber is one of the best blog posts I've read in quite a while, and invokes a strong desire to read his book..
...is something I've been reading about a bit lately. So while taking nothing away from Yglesias' larger point in this post, the following observation: there was no legal curb on.
This is a different kind of injustice than Willingham, in that there seems to be good evidence that Buck killed somebody, but as for the death sentence: In May 1997, a psychologist took the stand in a courtroom here during the sentencing hearing of Duane...
Plumer has a good analysis. It could be innocent. a necessary technical delay, but obviously given the ozone rule postponement there's obviously reason to be suspicious.
To expand on my recent observations a bit, I obviously agree with everything Steven Taylor says here. I would add that I completely reject the idea that the burden of.
At least as of 2009, my town of Springfield, Oregon had the highest known number of strip clubs per capita of any city in the United States. It has (or had) 7 strip clubs for a town of 58,000 residents. And I would really like...
Why does anyone care what Michael O'Hanlon thinks about anything? One nice thing about being a hawk, especially a nominally "liberal" one, is that your errors in judgment can never.
Maladroit, thy name is Moore.