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Embalming the Haymarket Martyrs
Chicago in the 1880s was a deadly place. In an era before modern medicine or sanitation, the large immigrant populations sustained themselves by working the most dangerous jobs. Workplace accidents were exceedingly common, and death at ...
Vee & Me Up In Here
DMX is dead. Admittedly, when he blew up in late 1990s, he wasn’t my go to for hip hop, although I did appreciate him. He was unapologetically rough. He was uncompromisingly raw, despite slick production. That ...
Recurring Dreams
My friend and fellow Hard Crackers editor Chris Alexander is largely responsible for this one. Chris is a medical technologist in the emergency room of a busy downtown hospital in Detroit. He performs CT scans (what ...
Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory – Two Short Essays
More Confusion – No Wonder! By Mike Morgan If there was a board game in which the winner would reveal the official historic and current U.S. position towards most of the Far East peoples and their ...
Special Issue: A Tribute to Noel Ignatiev
Noel Ignatiev started the Hard Crackers project in early 2016. It was his brainchild. Noel steadfastly maintained that the so-called ordinary people of our world hold in their grasp the potential to be extraordinary in all ...
Myanmar Micks
Let’s put this upfront and made clear, the Myanmar military junta is a murderous regime. It has seized control of the entire political apparatus, rounded up opposition politicians, and launched a war against everyday people around ...
The Last of The Wailers – A Brief Tribute to Bunny Wailer
Bunny Wailer (Neville O’Riley Livingston) passed away last week. Together with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, he made up the triumvirate that the music world knew as The Wailers. He had 73 years and outlived his ...
And to think that I saw it on FOX News!
The phone call came into the library early Saturday morning. The man on the other end was clearly agitated. “Do you guys have any Doctor Zeus books there at the library?” “Yes, we do,” I said. ...
Frozen in the Heart of Texas
Here in Houston, we are no stranger to natural disaster. Our addiction to the petrochemical industry should qualify us as masochists. I lived through Tropical Storm Allison, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Harvey, and countless flood events in-between. ...
Remembering Rush Limbaugh
I listened to a lot of Rush Limbaugh growing up in the 90s in Ohio. Talk radio was the de facto station when my dad was driving the car, and 610 WTVN syndicated Rush, followed by ...