I've written stories today about a Sasquatch hunt and the spontaneous combustion of King Tut. I'm thinking of kicking it old school and writing something about Hitler next.
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As longtime readers know, failed Republican presidential candidate and reprehensible sneering bully* Mitt Romney has occasionally seen fit to use this forum to place media stories in the proper context..
Why do I spend my time watching French cigarette commercials from the 30s? I do it for you of course.
It's not getting a lot of coverage, but the news about FRA safety rule changes that would allow a variety of "off-the-shelf" European trains to finally be allowed in the US could very easily top the 2009 ARRA grants as the most significant contribution to...
No kidding: Just over a month ago, the sky was supposedly falling in Cleveland. That's because the Browns had traded running back Trent Richardson, the third overall selection in the.
I should avoid the crack of the excerpts from Halperin and Heilemann's new book about the presidential campaign. Such books bring out the worst in the political class--the gossip, the.
Mike Konczal usefully summarizes Gordon Lafer's new report on the Tea Party's class warfare. Although the media and most blogs have focused on Tea Party legislators' work to undermine voting rights and reproductive rights, typically their work undermining employee rights has gone underreported. An excerpt:...
D.W. Griffith's 1909 film about how much it sucked when Progressive Era women with gargantuan hats sat in front of you at the theater.
You can be sure I'm going to tell my newly minted niece, Arya Rose, the correct answer to that question. For the record: I had nothing to do with the.
Farewell to George Thomas Thornton, an American visionary who understood that few dreams are worth pursuing that don't involve dynamite and the rotting carcasses of charismatic megafauna. While Thornton's decision to obliterate a sperm whale in November 1970 would, decades later, bring him lasting internet...
I suppose it would be in poor form to say this young feminist-- and her funny, inspiring open letter to trolls-- is adorable. So I won't. But I'm gonna have.
Edward Bland’s 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz is one of the most remarkable films I’ve ever seen. An early statement of the black nationalism that would become famous in.