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Guess I’m Antisemitic Too

June 19, 2025

Trial by fire brought Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to the forefront of America’s antisemitism frenzy. Asleep following a Passover event he hosted at the governor’s mansion in Harrisburg in April, police security awakened Shapiro and his family after an attacker set fire to their state home. Police say alleged arsonist Cody Balmer confessed he hated […]

Everhart Museum Disgrace Spreads

June 11, 2025

In yet another stunning example of cold dispassion, Everhart Museum of Natural History & Art officials in Scranton, Pennsylvania, refuse to respond to my questions about whether they possess Native American human remains. And, if they do, why have they failed to adhere to federal law that requires them to return the human remains to […]

Everhart Museum Silent on Shrunken Heads

May 21, 2025

Of all days in 2016 to showcase a “shrunken head,” Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art officials in Scranton, Pennsylvania, chose Halloween. Despite acknowledging “ethical considerations,” museum staff highlighted the dried body part like a grisly relic starring as a grotesque creature in a low budget horror movie. Museum officials posted a bizarre […]

Repatriate the Everhart Museum Mummy

May 16, 2025

Ancient human remains gathering dust in a dark Scranton storage space is no way to treat the dead. But that’s how administrators at the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art are mishandling a more than 2,000-year-old Peruvian mummy. This five-foot-tall teenage cadaver once existed as a live human, walking and talking with family […]

The Wild Colonial Boy

April 29, 2025

In the photo the empty lot behind me blurs in the Atlantic City distance, making faded letters advertising salt water taffy impossible to read on the peeling side of the building. Yet memories of my youth glisten amid the gravel and dirt of that barren piece of property where Eddie’s Shamrock Bar, the first bar […]

The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch