This is the grave of Oswald West. Born in 1873 in Guelph, Ontario, West grew up in Salem, Oregon, where his family moved around 1877. He went to the local schools and then went into banking in Oregon. In 1898, he got the gold bug and...
Any kind of music Hall of Fame that features Foreigner and not Warren Zevon is a self-refuting absurdity. Imagine, say, if the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame had Freddie.
I had the pleasure to talk to our friend Michael Hiltzik from the Los Angeles Times about the significance of the UAW's victory in Chattanooga. The vote opens the door.
Minouche Shafik not only completely rolled over for Congress at hearings, she literally called the police to arrest peaceful protestors while also evicting them. Which leads us to the inevitable next stage of the story, "if you treat Elise Stefanik as a good faith actor you...
Climate change is horrible enough in the United States. Summers in New England are so much hotter than they used to be, as we turn into Virginia, Virginia turns into.
The Supreme Court case today over criminalizing homelessness has a lot of interest to me, largely because it comes from Grants Pass, a small town I know well in southwestern.
Allow me to build a bit on Paul's post from earlier today. The thing that strikes me about the last couple of days is that, like in the 1960s, university administrations are massively overreacting to campus protests and in doing so, making them far worse. Criminalizing...
I've been reading a history of the NFL to my son (he's doing a school project on Jim Thorpe, who was actually the NFL's first president, although this appears to.
I never met Steven in person. We came very close to meeting once in New York City, but because of a variety of transportation snafus it didn't end up happening..
Historical analogies are always tricky, because analogical reasoning is always tricky. The two difficulties here are on the one hand exaggerating the extent of parallels between similar events, or on the other hand dismissing such parallels because there are differences between such events. (One style of...
This is the grave of Samuel Lanham. Born in 1846 in South Carolina, Lanham grew up in the world of owning humans, which as a young man he was happy.
Not the Onion, or even the Babylon Bee: Look, I don't particularly envy anyone who has to deal with this particular Republican conference every day, but let's just pump the.