The Holy Ghost People, Taking Up Serpents and Tales From Stump Holler

I would hardly describe myself as a cultural anthropologist, far from it in fact. More, what shall I say, watcher, no not watcher, observer,...

Obama: Natural Born Citizen Equivocator

Obama's Mysterious Past: The Walls Close In Donald Trump recently raised the issue of Barack Obama’s mystery birth certificate on the T...

An American Success: The Prison Industrial Complex

In the year 2000, 2 million or 25% of the world's 8 million prisoners were housed in the U.S. Which only has 5% of the world's popul...

Japanese Ninja Radioactive Mutant Turtles Coming Soon

Say hello to Cyclops the mouse. Fukushima creating monster-mutated animals 04 April 2011 As frantic nuclear workers battle melting reactors ...

Mankind Is a Bollocks Nuclear Edition

This is a funny kind of post on Bluegrass culture. Starting out to collect apples, I've ended up with pears. First up, the wonders of nu...

decorating tips

Carry your style outdoors "Outdoor areas are often the last to receive design attention, but they shouldn't be," says landsca...

Barack Obama: Nowhere Man

You might think a poem about George Bush is a funny way to introduce a post about Barack Obama, but for me it makes sense, there is a parall...

Fat-ten-u

I recently bought the book Food in the United States, 1820s-1890 . I came across an ad for an interesting product that was sold in the late...

Harlan County USA Download

There is little wonder Barbara Kopple’s film, Harlan County USA, won the Oscar for best documentary in 1977. But to watch the thing today yo...