I recovered this from the Wayback Machine in 2023. Boy, I don’t agree with it now. After the loss of women’s rights, rights for members of the LGBTQ+ community, rights for people of color…people had better be scared into voting. — Michelle Malkin points out a flyer making the rounds here in Missouri that …includes a 1960s photograph of a […]
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Screwy weather
I was reading today in Prairie Point about the Missouri Earthquake of 1811. I had not heard of this before, so checked online and found that there was a series of earthquakes that hit the Mississippi Valley region in 1811 and 1812, and which geologists believe were the most damaging and widespread earthquakes to hit the country. […]
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What is good journalism
Recovered from the Wayback Machine Taking a break from ‘what is good radio’, I wanted to point out what I consider to be good journalism. Dave Winer is on a tear against the professional news organizations because of an appearance of Jon Stewart on Crossfire. I listened to a recording of this (managing not to hotlink directly to […]
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Before there were cans
Yesterday afternoon I walked around Forest Park in St. Louis, and today, I went to Horseshoe Lake Park in Illinois. However, on the way today, I spotted a Pumpkin Patch festival and had to stop to check it out. Which is my way of saying I have a few photos to share. (More will be […]
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Lessons learned from radio
Recovered from the Wayback Machine Before people run off into the wilds of technology with the newest and latest way to communicate, in this case podcasting, a few lessons to be learned from predecessors in the art. When was the last time you read something that was written a year ago or longer. Recently? Did […]