What Child Labor Looks Like
“Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Company mine at Hughestown Borough near Pittston, January 1911.” (1920 unknown location)
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
A Rain of Apples
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 … Read more
The Three Stooges — The comic book!
The legendary physical farce and extreme slapstick of The Three Stooges are the subject of a new comic book called “COMICS: The Three Stooges.” COMICS is a comic … Read more
Twitter Haiku!
Seen on the haikuprogress twitter feed: Feeding the richest / hoping they will create #jobs / Carts before horses… Tense in the city / Angry crowds become fixtures … Read more
And So, It Has Finally Come To This
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 … Read more
“You’ve Been Trumped” trailer
A trailer for the award-winning feature-doc You’ve Been Trumped, filmed in Scotland. Released this year, you probably haven’t heard much about it. But you will. Synopsis: In this … Read more
Lost Journal: Son’s Driving Skills are Under Construction
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: August 9, 1985 (age 16) It was a surprise, a few weeks ago, when our parents asked my brother, Dan, and me if … Read more
Obama Stars In Remake of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
President Obama gazed down from the icy bridge into the swirling frigid waters of the Potomac below him. In the darkness of the night the distance between him … Read more
Found It At Last!
The above photo is of an Amazon warehouse. . I believe you can find the Ark of the Covenant near the upper right corner.
The Cost of War: $400 a Gallon Gas
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 … Read more
