Snouts in trough

The placemen, sinecurists and tax-eaters have been at it again. Oink, Oink!
Update: more.

Monster Man is gone

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett goes to the great lab in the sky.

Uptown tourist train

Ontario may soon have a new excursion train.

Greedy King dethroned

In a sea of adverse publicity Greedy Greene King abdicates. The BBC reports on the humiliating climbdown.
They can't say they weren't warned - see PunchBuggy Passim.

Dwight, Illinois

I took this photo in Dwight on the Route 66 tour in 2005. The railroad goes from Chicago to St. Louis. Opposite the station is the First National Bank building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1905. For more Dwight go here.