Cinco de Mayo 2020 was peak American capitalism

May 15, 2020

On May 5, 1862, Mexican general Ignacio Zaragoza led his undermanned troops to victory in the First Battle of Puebla over an invading French army that hadn’t been defeated in nearly 50 years. Four days after the battle, President Benito Juárez declared that its anniversary would be a national holiday known as “Battle of Puebla […]

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Happy Mothers Day from Cleveland Frowns

May 10, 2020

I’ve been enjoying all the mothers day posts on social media today and feeling as lucky as ever for all the moms in my life, especially because quarantine would be a lot harder without the two I live with. Which is part of why I’m also especially sad today that it’s so much harder than […]

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Cleveland.com editor Chris Quinn melts down in “delirious” defense of Cleveland’s “thriving” journalism industry

April 12, 2020

It makes sense that it was a legendary muckraking journalist, Upton Sinclair, who coined the truism about how hard it is “to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” And it’s not so surprising after Advance Media’s brutal round of union-busting layoffs at the Plain Dealer last […]

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Newhouse family and Advance Media continue their slow murder of journalism in Cleveland with more union-busting layoffs at the Plain Dealer

April 5, 2020

Ten years ago there were 300 journalists working in the Plain Dealer newsroom. Now, after 22 more of them lost their jobs last Friday in yet another round of layoffs by the paper’s corporate owner Advance Media, there are only 14 left. According to a statement issued by the PD News Guild, the nation’s first […]

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It’s time for the 2019 off-season champs to play some real games

September 8, 2019

The Cleveland Browns haven’t had a winning record since 2007 and enter the 2019 season with the third-longest streak of losing seasons in NFL history, just one behind the 1967–’78 New Orleans Saints, and three behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of ’83 to ’96. The last time the Browns won a playoff game was in […]

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526 Years (and Counting) of Dignity and Resistance

April 2, 2019

The annual Native American protests at yesterday’s home opener for the Cleveland “Indians” MLB team were quiet, if otherwise typical. Most typical being the constant sneering and shouting at the protesters by the (mostly Caucasian) fans of the team who were upset that anyone would question their right to make a mascot out of a […]

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Fifth consecutive Browns coach fails to last three seasons

October 29, 2018

When Hue Jackson was hired as the Browns head coach in 2016 it was widely hailed as a “huge coup” for Cleveland and team owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam. Jackson was the hot assistant coach that everyone wanted, having turned down a chance to interview for the Giants job and a guaranteed spot as Marvin Lewis’s […]

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Chief Wahoo’s last stand on Columbus Day is just perfect

October 8, 2018

If one were to have guessed back in April how the curse of Chief Wahoo would do its thing this season—in which the Cleveland MLB team announced its agreement that “the [Wahoo] logo is no longer appropriate for on-field use in Major League Baseball,” but also that it would give the racist symbol a year-long […]

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The G.O.A.T. from Akron is in the NBA Finals for the 8th year in a row

May 31, 2018

Only four other people besides LeBron James have ever made it to eight consecutive NBA Finals series, and all of them were members of the Bill Russell-led Celtics dynasty of the late fifties and early sixties when most of the league’s players were white. With LeBron’s Cavaliers set to tip off as overwhelming underdogs in […]

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Indians cave to MLB pressure on Chief Wahoo

January 29, 2018

Today, the New York Times reported that the Cleveland Indians will stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms in 2019. According to a statement from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred that cited “Major League Baseball’s commitment to building a culture of diversity and inclusion,” the Indians organization “ultimately agreed with [Manfred’s] position that the logo […]

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