Month: October 2013

Will we default at midnight? It’s all up to Congress now..

TUESDAY OCTOBER 15 2013 Midway through the month already.. this year near over. How did the resolutions go? Here’s the smattering of patterings for you, offered like rain on a tin roof.. The news of today. For better or worse.. Anyone feel some planetary shaking lately? Like.. a lot? 6.4 in Crete.. 80 quakes in … Read moreTumultuous Tuesdays.. just another day on planet earth.

I feel I have done a great disservice to readers.. I had a wonderful experience this weekend at a ‘haunted’ attraction and failed to do any in depth posting about it.. My apologies.. I am relatively close to the beautiful town  of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. If you are too, or willing to take a drive … Read moreA place to see this season in Jim Thorpe, PA: The Old Jail Museum

MONDAY OCTOBER 14 2013Columbus Day.. (We still celebrate this?) It was an interesting weekend.. no budget deal yet.. but the weather in my neck of the wood sure was perfect. It almost makes financial disaster less scary when the skies are blue and the autumn breeze is warm. Nonetheless, calamnity may befall the nation this … Read moreA debt ceiling on the Mondays.. News from around here, there, and beyond

HAPPY VISIONS THAT NEVER WERE Every year I am approached by a friend who tells me they yearn to go to Pennhurst State hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania.. and it seems, in turn, that I have to tell someone yearly of the true horror that happened at that location in the late 20th century, during … Read morePennhurst pains: You won’t see me paying to watch the children suffer

I am going to be clear. I am not a 50 SHADES OF GRAY fan, I have never read the book, and I have no plans, ever, to see the movie.But I have been notified by my wife and another reader of THE HORROR REPORT that Charlie Hunnan has dropped out of the lead role … Read moreFifty shades of not so great

A few years ago I would happily carve my pumpkins to look like that in the opening scene of HALLOWEEN. Now I make them look like Angry Birds. This year, the hunt is on: We are desperately trying to find a Ninja Turtles Donetalla costume that fits Ayden. Parenting is surely fun.. It changes everything.Especially … Read moreHalloween parenting..

PHAILIN WAS AS STRONG AS IT WAS FEARED IT WOULD BE

High-res → The photo you’re looking at is an example of Victorian post-mortem photography. Our modern world may call this creepy and weird.  But think of the times it happened in.. kids weren’t living very long due to disease and other issues. A big family of 10 could be taken down to much less due to … Read moreStrange traditions of yesterday

….but how long would it take before social unrest if they never did? I asked this question of myself a number of times yesterday. If you didn’t know, the EBT system was down in much of the United States. The technological glitch stopped people from using their food stamps to purchase items at grocery stories … Read moreEBT cards are working again..