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We need more anger over unemployment fraud scandal “I’m madder than a penguin on Miami Beach over all the mealy-mouthed politicians whining about the economy and not doing anything about it,” wrote pseudonymous columnist Ed Anger, in the now-online Weekly World News. The one-time tabloid, which recently ran a feature story about an alien orthodontist who finally returned home, had long published Anger’s vitriolic and (hopefully) satirical screeds. After sifting through news myriad stori...

Pat Barile, 1920-2020. | Courtesy of Barile Family Pat Barile learned the meaning of the word devotion from the rank-and-file workers at the Sonotone Corporation plant in White Plains, N.Y. in the mid-1940s and 1950s. Repeatedly, they elected him president of United Electrical Workers Local 428 for ten years—even after Cold Warriors had branded him a Communist and instigated a witch hunt and continual efforts to decertify the UE. Pat Barile, lower right, with some of his co-workers at the CPU...

Ben Insanity Wrap needs to know: Why hasn’t the press asked the president if his ice cream represents white supremacy? Answer: Sorry, we forgot Donald Trump is no longer the president. Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap. Beauty only goes skin deep, but ugly is a marketing campaign It was a dark and stormy speech The government will tell you whether you’re independent enough to celebrate Independence Day And so much more. This Is Not a Sane World, Exhibit...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Donation match: Will you meet my challenge for People’s World? February 19, 2021 1:46 PM CDT By Tim Wheeler Retired Peoples World editor in chief Tim Wheeler distributing copies of the Daily World at an event in the 1980s. Now hes issued a challenge to PW readers and supporter...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. QAnon Mayor terminates popular Sequim, Washington state City Manager February 3, 2021 9:51 AM CDT By Tim Wheeler The City of Sequim Civic Center. The citys mayor has connections to QAnon, say many of its residents, that led him to push the firing of City Manager Charlie Bush. | ...

Her tombstone reads: GET OFF MY LAWN!  She is relieved she won’t have to update her LinkedIn profile, shave her legs, or hear “Creep” by Radiohead ever again. Some may even be jealous that she’s getting out of enduring a Biden presidency.  Kathy was a writer, author, columnist and blogging pioneer, as proud of her first book’s Governor General’s Award nomination as of her stint as “Ed Anger” for the Weekly World News. A target for “cancel” culture before the term was coine...

FROM ADA ICON - The Ada-based band Mississippi Bones is releasing a new album titled “Wise Words from the Uninformed,” according to Dusty Donley. He told the Icon that the album cover and artwork are a spoof of old tabloids like the Weekly World News. “The record itself comes with a full tabloid magazine,” said Donley. “Each song on the album is an ‘article’ in the magazine.” This is the sixth full-length album and 15th release by the band since 2010.  “Originally, were all ...