Month: February 2011

Brooklyn Dodger legend Duke Snider died yesterday. In the 1950’s the Yankees had Mickey Mantle, the Giants had Willie Mays, and the Dodgers had the Duke. They all played centerfield in New York City and one or two of them...

Good old hydrofracking. You know about it right? It’s the method to produce natural gas by fracturing rock formations with millions of gallons of water and toxic chemicals. It’s been contaminating groundwater in the...

Someone needs to volunteer to edit Kathryn Lopez’s writing before she publishes it on the interwebs. She asks why the Republicans are waging a war on contraception and then says that they aren’t really doing that....

Scott Walker got punked big time by Buffalo journalist Ian Murphy recently. I’m sure that you have heard about it. Murphy claimed to be one of the right-wing financier Koch brothers (Pronounced...

Well, we now know what would be happening if John McCain (or, most likely, Al Gore) had been elected: Two senators urged the Obama administration to give “tangible” support to the opposition in Libya in terms of...