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June 19, 2022 THE COAL SPEAKER

Bill Clinton’s excellent 1990s Roswell adventure

Bill Clinton stops the laughter on Corden: He said he sent Sandy Berger to Roswell for an interesting purpose..

Not saying it was aliens. But it was aliens.

June 16, 2022 THE COAL SPEAKER

The latest on somethingpox

In 2003, an op-ed ran saying this:

“There isn’t much money for surveillance, or much concern about a disease that seems remote to us, even though we are nicked once by a brief encounter with a milder strain. But we are all inhabitants of a single planet, and the evolution of a new form of human poxvirus, remote and unlikely though it still seems, has the power to affect us all.”

In 2022, are we about to all be introduced to monkeypox?

June 16, 2022 THE COAL SPEAKER

The greater recession is hitting everywhere

From food prices to fuel, and now inflation which will change the landscape of car and home buying, we seem to be in a ‘greater recession.’ No official declaration. Jobs numbers still decent.. but we feel it brewing. We sense it’s knocking on the door. And they ain’t much great about it..

June 4, 2022 THE COAL SPEAKER

THE SUMMER OF 92: BATMAN RETURNED

It has been 30 years since Batman Returns was released. It took over the world by storm in June, 1992..

Lines for the movie at the Schuylkill Mall even stretched back far beyond the Bonanza steakhouse..

A trigger warning on this post: You will feel the nostalgia if you lived through it.

June 1, 2022 THE COAL SPEAKER

Kate Bush appreciation post

A lot of Kate Bush fans seem angry that people discovered her because of Stranger Things…

But this is how it works!

Pop culture is not yours to own..You just belong to the period of time you were cultured in.. Your decade or era is not dead when you die. It becomes fabric in the entire wardrobe of culture and entertainment. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.

May 31, 2022 THE COAL SPEAKER

The mysterious acute hepatitis in children is spreading: 650 kids in 33 countries

This is what we know: At least 650 children across 33 countries have been diagnosed with mysterious, acute hepatitis infections since October 2021, roughly one-third of which have been detected in the United States, according to the World Health Organization.