I'm plowing through Hang Nguyen's Hanoi's War, a history of the war from the view of North Vietnam's elite, and ran across this: On 13 April, the Chinese leader argued that there was a causal link between DRV’s 3 April announcement and the assassination of Martin...
OK, here’s a “Walking Dead” mid-season finale open thread. *SPOILERS MENTIONED--READ WITH CAUTION* It was pretty brutal: lots of death, lots of gore, lots of heartbreak. We lost The Guvna..
Our own Origami Isopod pointed me to this article about a Silicon Valley douchebro who is grossed out by all the mentally ill poor people in San Francisco. I’m sure.
First we have Larry Summers, for calling for university presidents to not fund faculty who want to attend the American Studies Association meeting. If the ASA had instead pushed to send toxic waste to Africa, Summers would be lauding the organization. It's hard to see a...
Given that the 2013-14 series is in Australia, I'm not following it as closely as 2005, 2009, or this past summer. Instead, I've been waking up each morning to the.
It's illegal to be a (small-r, not batshit crazy R) republican in the United Kingdom. Indeed, it's illegal to so much as imagine a United Kingdom without the, you know,.
A year ago yesterday, ESPN ranked its top 100 baseball players of all time. @oldhossradbourn provided running commentary. I had not seen it all collected into one site until now..
Perlstein has some more depressing examples of faculty members making these silly arguments. Back in the early days of this blog, faculty defenders of union-busting at NYU established new standards.
In comments yesterday, duck-billed placelot pointed me to a truly terrifying story. Basically all the starfish in the northern Pacific are disintegrating. It’s normal for a tiny portion of starfish populations to suffer from so-called “wasting syndrome.” If the creatures’ skin is wounded or becomes too...
Since the world is now obsessing over Santa's whiteness, or really more specifically just how racist is Megyn Kelly, it's worth noting that even if Santa is Scandinavian we can.
The only known recording of Mother Jones for your Thursday night. This is from an interview on what she claimed was her 100th birthday in 1930. She did exaggerate her.