Punxsutawney Phil: Friend or foe? A Groundhog Day investigation By Lisa Rose, CNN http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/01/living/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-feat/index.html?eref=rss_topstories Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, is the birthplace of Groundhog Day and the home of Punxsutawney Phil, the Peyton Manning of prescient rodents.
Harrell’s job was to feed discarded computer monitors and televisions to the Angel-Devil, a truck-sized shredding machine that chopped up cathode ray tubes and ground the glass from the screens into powder. He earned $10 per hour for his labor.
After his eight-hour shift, clad in the same skully hat and street clothes he typically wore throughout each day, he would greet his family, waiting in a car outside. His infant daughter Jeriyah was especially eager to be held and hugged, he recalled recently.
He didn’t know that those cuddles were poisoning his baby http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/c/35496/f/677088/s/4d480b44/sc/28/l/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0C20A160C0A10C290Clead0Epoisoning0Erecycled0Eelectronics0In0I9131340A0Bhtml0Dutm0Ihp0Iref0Fscience0Gir0FScience/story01.htm You don’t need to go near an e-scrap facility to suffer the harmful effects.
Douglass, who was believed to have been born in February, 1818 is of special interest to libertarians for many reasons. As Damon Root has written for Reason, Douglass was a true classical liberal who believed in individualism, strong property rights, and voluntary philanthropy as the best way to create a free, prosperous, and inclusive society. http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/01/google-celebrates-frederick-douglass The escaped slave and ouspoken abolitionist was a classical liberal.
