Erik Loomis

Probably not a great sign for the future of the Balkans: Thousands of mourners gathered in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, on Monday for the funeral of Ratko Mladic, bowing their heads in respect before the coffin of the former Bosnian Serb general and convicted war criminal known as the “Butcher of Bosnia.” Serbia’s strongman president, Aleksandar […]

I don't have the technical knowledge to evaluate this claim but it certainly feels right that the declining share of income going to labor and the implementation of technology are closely connected and that AI will make this all the worse.

This is the grave of John Dickinson. Born in 1732 in Crosiadore Plantation, Talbot County, Maryland, where his parents wrested profits from

What in the living fucking hell happened in Ann Arbor last weekend? College football is such a shitshow of competence. Amateurism still exists in college football, but it has nothing to do with the now highly paid players and everything to do with the idiots who run the game. If you didn't see it or hear about, Michigan was about to lose to Western Michigan. Bryce Underwood, their highly paid but outright horrible quarterback, threw a last second hail mary to avoid the upset. It fell to the ground with 0 seconds remaining on the clock. Or did it? After review, the officials said there was one second on the clock. Now, in this day and age, the networks have retired referees from the NFL to discuss controversial calls. The referee was absolutely gobsmacked that they found a way to give 1 second to Michigan. And of course Underwood threw another hail mary that was caught and Michigan “won” the game.

I am finally going to end my show drought tomorrow and I'll talk about that next week. I don't have a real great topic for this week. So how about this? What is your favorite album so far released in 2026? A lot of mine are jazz albums. I've been somewhat disappointed by some favorite singers of mine that have released albums this year, though that changed this week. But I don't want to include an album I've only listened to once or twice on such a list. Some of the best I've heard are James Brandon Lewis Quartet's

This is the grave of Nana. Born sometime around 1810, Nana, which was the Spanish name to given to an Apache man who was also named Kas-tziden

It's very, very easy to be cynical about anyone calling themselves Christian in the United States in 2026. After all, Christians are Trump's biggest supporters and so, so many are all-in on a revanchist fascism that has no connection with any teachings in the Bible. But then when did Christians pay attention to the Bible anyway? Pretty much never and thats not just contemporary evangelicals. I don't exactly see a lot in the Bible to create a basis for Catholics' Cult of Mary, for example. But the real problem today is the decline of liberal Christianity, as the mainstream Protestant denominations are in an extinction event, or something close to it. How many active Lutherans are there going to be in this nation in 25 years anyway? People have either just turned to secularism like they have in Sweden or they've found the kind of hate they really want and the community event/business connections they've always sought in religious services in the evangelical communities.

Manzanar is a 1971 Robert Nakamura film about the concentration camp by that name where Americans threw the Japanese based on their race during World War II.

This is the grave of Medgar Evers. Born in Decatur, Mississippi in 1925, Evers grew up without much but with a little more than a lot of rural black families in his part of the world.

The real news is the Supreme Court voting 7-2 to deny Trump his Postal Service cheating mechanism in the midterms.