“Crowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophouses”: A Review of “The Unknown World of the Mobile Home “by John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in the Deep South, trailer parks are everywhere, yet surprisingly little has been written about them. At best, trailer parks […]
Archives for March 2018
Has Trump Met His Match?
Stormy Daniels has effectively shattered many myths and taboos regarding appropriate female behavior. She is not merely a porn actress. She is also an incredibly smart and talented woman. Her talents extend beyond being able to spread her legs far and wide. At the moment Daniels is challenging an extremely powerful man: Donald J. Trump. […]
Report from Boston event
We held our first Hard Crackers convening in Boston on March 4. Including a one-year-old, seventeen new and old friends of Hard Crackers attended. A Boston old-timer talked about his friends recovering from opioid addictions. A 7th and 8th grade teacher discussed her students preparing to walk out for gun control in the wake of the […]
Editors’ Roundtable
The shooting at Douglas High School in Parkland prompted an exchange among our editors, which we are publishing here. To begin, three items: The first is from the Hard Crackers mission statement carried in every issue: American society is a time-bomb where the impending explosion is endlessly hinted at by horrifying “little” degradations of daily […]