I strongly recommend Laura McKenna's piece on the wall that separates the general public from academic research: Step back and think about this picture. Universities that created this academic content for free must pay to read it. Step back even further. The public -- which has...
How do you celebrate your 52nd birthday if you are Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Toga party of course. Via
Ron Paul is the only candidate willing to take a stand against assassinating US citizens on the moon with drone strikes. Listen up, so-called progressives.
The general tenor of the labor community is that Obama was typically tepid on labor issues in his State of the Union. He mentioned in passing a union workplace in Milwaukee as an example of jobs being brought back to the United States, but the union...
My high school makes the news for the only time ever. And it is for a typically classy thing. ....Though to be fair, the town as a whole, and in.
Shorter Rick Reilly: "Sure, the late Joe Paterno may have knowingly done nothing while someone he knew to be a child rapist continued to work for the head of a.
Another predictably unhinged anti-airpower screed: Steven Cook argues that the United States and NATO ought to start seriously discussing intervention in Syria. If not and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is left to massacre his political opponents, he wonders, what message will it send to the international...
A useful chart from Plumer. For further context: Romney has said he was unemployed. He's right. He actually does nothing to earn most of his income. He's just in possession.
"The enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who want them to continue to exist." Anyway, that speech should quiet Bill Kristol down for a while.
Probably the greatest Greek filmmaker ever has died, killed by a motorcycle on the set of his film-in-progress. Angelopoulos received a good bit of publicity in the U.S. during the mid 90s, which is when I began to watch film. Landscape in the Mist is probably...
(The continuation of the previous post which, like this one, is yet another one of those posts.) I was going to jump right into the episode of Doctor Who I'm teaching tomorrow, but.
I'm certainly not going to speak against Any Which Way You Can, which clearly provides the greatest chimp-Eastwood pairing we will ever see. And higher power of your choice knows.