Kansas Roadtrips: Prairie Dogs of Hutchinson
There are exactly three things to do in Hutchinson, unless you count going to the mall as a thing to do – Cosmosphere, Kansas Underground Salt Museum and watching the prairie dogs. Both museums are excellent, probably among the best in Midwest, but it’s the prairie dogs who put everything in perspective.
Prairie dogs represent the eternity.
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A biker shows his soft side (even if it’s his backside) with a little plush toy.
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Old Photos: A Marriage Palace in Leningrad
Every person who grew up in the Soviet Union has photos like these stashed in their dusty photo albums. Not all Marriage Palaces used to belong to the Czar’s family but any self-respecting city had a place where the new units of society were forged or at least registered under the watchful stare of
Jesus ChristVladimir Illych Lenin.Somewhere in Kansas
Just a few photos here and there…
Prehistoric squirrel discovered along my walking trail:
Continue reading →Jews:1 Missouri Nazis:0
You can complain about the Missouri Legislature, but you cannot accuse them in the lack of the sense of humor. Rick Hellman, the heir to Hellman Mayonnaise fortune editor of the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle reports that the Missouri legislators passed a bill meant to tweak the Springfield chapter of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement.
In the beginning of the year local news reported that a neo-Nazi group has joined the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan. Now they will be picking up litter along the “Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway.”
Rabbi Heschel was a steadfast supporter of the Civil Rights and marched along with Martin Luther King in the Selma Civil Rights March.
Said Missouri Nazis: “Oy Gevalt!”
View Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway in a larger maphttpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t101rO7WuAM
Read about it: HB1197
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