Last night I watched "Mesrine", the 4 hour film on the life of the notorious French gangster of the 60s and 70s, Jacques Mesrine. It was very good, but not great, suffering from some of the problems many bio-pic faces, primarily the need to stuff...
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The foreclosure mill that held hye-larious parties mocking homeless people and believes that it's unconstitutional for banks and their lawyers to be asked to affirm that they own the properties.
On November 22, 1909, approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the.
We at LGM's Upstate New York regional offices are very much late to the party in terms of trying Jim Lahey's no-knead bread recipe, which was much discussed several years ago. We can, however, confirm that it works spectacularly well.
When I called it torture, I meant it. Imagine being sprayed with a concentrated dose of something more than ten times hotter than a habanero pepper, or nearly 1000 times.
A bit of an older piece now, but Ian Angus and Simon Butler provide some real solid evidence to a point I have made repeatedly--that overpopulation is far from the.
Who could have guessed that energy companies would wildly exaggerate the economic benefit pipelines bring to local communities! Here are the tax dollar promises TransCanada promised South Dakota counties and what they are actually paying: Marshall County: $937,804.50 promised; $286,280.98 actually paid; Clark County: $1,369,565,98...
A good Chris Fan piece at Hyphen asking a question that has plagued social movements for a long time--why do solidly progressive politicians end up siding with forces of order.
This is yet another classic example of Rust Belt media bias. Personally if I see one more HBO special about the Tigers-Indians rivalry I'm going to puke. Meanwhile Derek Jeter.
David Segal's latest NYT piece in his continuing series of articles on the (dys)functions of legal education features among other things some calculations regarding the exponential growth in both the amount of legal scholarship that's being published by American law school faculty, and the cost...
Mickey Kaus Democrat and creepy Eyes Wide Shut costume store owner Pat Caddell argues once again that Obama should step aside in 2012...because he's just too partisan. It's enough to.
"I don't think it's appropriate for me to resign at this moment," said UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, after her decision to order peaceful protestors removed from campus had completely.