Tag: west
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Found Winter Photo: Bison
I’ll admit it. I went looking for this one. The American Bison evolved with their massive heads and necks so they could plow their way through the prodigious snows of the American Great Plains. You probably know these animals colloquially as “buffalo,” but that is a misnomer. Buffalo are a very different animal. In…
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Best Damn Quotes: Edward Abbey on Stupidity
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bonafide stupidity, nothing beats teamwork”. -Ed Abbey *I’ve stopped numbering these. Why bother to keep track?
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Subject of Last “Random” Photo: Georgie White
Anybody miss me while I was out of town and away from the Interwebs? Well, I missed you–or “yinz guys” as we like to way in western PA. I had several ideas I thought I could write about today, but a second look at this morning’s “random” photo inspired me to do a little digging…
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Remember The Poison Chemicals Dumped in West Virginia?
Remember the company that poisoned the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t–at the time, the media was a lot more focused on Justin Beiber’s throwing eggs at his neighbors’ house than at a clusterfuck some have called the worst man-made natural disaster in the past hundred…
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Two Great (And Necessary) Pop Music Parodies
First, Ron Jeremy ride’s Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball Next, James Franco & Seth Rogen skewer the ridiculous Kanye West Every time I hear this clown, Kanye, I remember when rap was something impossibly cool and vaguely alien to an rural Appalachian white guy like me. Compared to Eric B. & Rakim, for example, Big Daddy…
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