This is the grave of Jose Manuel Torres de la Cruz. OK, this is something of an experimental grave post. I was walking around the big cemetery in Santiago. There's going to be a lot of graves coming out of this trip, many of which are...
I hope the LGM community has been spared: For weeks, Sherry Dommer has been living a gastrointestinal nightmare. Violent cramps. Exhaustion. Unrelenting nausea. Sprints to the toilet at all hours.
Green for Danger is a 1946 film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim, and a solid cast of mid-century British actors. The film itself is really.
It's good that the Peace President engineered a totally ironclad ceasefire agreement to conclude the war with Iran that started through some mysterious unknown mechanism, or things might get really bad over there: An American servicemember died in northern Iraq on Saturday during a controlled detonation of a...
"Los argentinos son mas arrogantes que los chilenos" was a correct answer in my Spanish class in Santiago on Friday. Everyone in Latin America hates Argentina. In fact, most everyone.
I cannot imagine a worse or stupider ballot measure than what Oregon liberals are trying to push here. Evidently, Democrats never want to win a rural voter ever again: A.
It's almost impossible for me to say anything good about the United States during the Trump years. It's a terrible country filled with terrible humans. I'm very much an American, lord knows, but the fact mostly fills me with shame that I am product of this...
We're still calculating the ways in which the opioid epidemic hit Appalachia: The local effects of this decline are well known. “Population losses erode local tax bases, strain the provision.
Commenters Thom and WeWantPie pointed to this brilliant piece of analysis from Tim Kreider. What's brilliant about it is that it states what should and in some sense is obvious,.
This is the grave of George Ross. Born in 1730 in New Castle, Delaware, Ross was pretty well off, the son of a prominent minister. There weren't a lot of schools, even for a smart kid, so mostly he was taught privately at home. His older...
Alas for them, Trump cannot pardon them for crimes committed in other countries, and I don't think even Labour would sink to Jared Polis: Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose.
I haven't blogged a lot in Chile, but I have watched a ton of movies at night, enough for a lot of LGM Film Club posts, so I should start.