“Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Company mine at Hughestown Borough near Pittston, January 1911.” (1920 unknown location)
Dec 162011
Dec 152011
This Tuesday rained apples in the town of Keresley in Coventry, England. More than a hundred of the fruit were reported to have fallen from the sky. One driver said: “The apples fell out of the sky as if out of nowhere. They were small [more...]
Dec 122011
This evening while channel surfing I chanced to stumble across an old friend’s television program on Public Access. Jeanie has been a pillar of the progressive movement in Sacramento for as long as I can remember. She walked the picket lines against the Wars [more...]
Dec 102011
Parachuting a barrel of fuel to a remote Afghan base takes sharp flying skills, steady nerves and flawless timing. It also costs a lot of money—up to $400 a gallon, by military estimates. But the Pentagon is stuck with the expense for the foreseeable future, [more...]
Dec 102011
The above photo is of an Amazon warehouse. . I believe you can find the Ark of the Covenant near the upper right corner.
Dec 102011
Back in the ’90s I wrote an occasional political satire column for a monthly called The Comic Press News. I remember during the run up to the ’98 Governors election there was a three way race on the Democratic side leading up to the primary [more...]
Dec 102011
“Back in 2010, the ad agency Scholz and Friends made the following ads for The International Society for Human Rights. They feature famous pictures of horrifying news stories with absurdly false headlines. The handwritten note in each ad points out that our information could be this bad without [more...]
Dec 102011
Remember all those jobs that illegal aliens were taking from good hard working Americans? Remember all the good American men and women that would surely line up to fill them once those foreigners stopped stealing our jobs? Guess what? Some states in the South passed [more...]
Dec 102011
A new study has shown that rats are capable of empathy. No only do they appear to share the discomfort of others, but they will free a fellow rat from confinement even when there is no obvious reward for doing so. This makes them [more...]
Dec 062011
Recently found in New Zealand, they grow to be about the size of a man’s fist and live up to 20 years. Of course they still move as slow as, well a snail, so still not very scary. If Uwe Boll is reading this [more...]