A 1948 letter from the mayor of Boston to a professor at M.I.T., via PopSci:

Honestly how sweet would that be? Here I’m about to go home and shovel and salt like a chump, when meanwhile I could be blasting my driveway with a massive flamethrower. What happened, M.I.T.?

On Monday, at a hearing before the Legislature’s State and Local Government Committee, Rep. Donald Pilon dismissed whoopies as “frosting delivery vehicles” and suggested that wild-blueberry pie deserves to be the state’s official dessert.

“At a time when 31.3 percent of Maine’s children are considered overweight or obese, do we want to glorify a dessert that lists lard as its primary ingredient?” asked Pilon, D-Saco.

Pro-pie forces countered with a nutritionist of their own. Katherine Musgrave, a retired professor from the University of Maine, said the whoopie pie’s chocolate has ingredients that serve as antioxidants that relax blood pressure.

– Tom Bell, Kennebec Journal.

This is hilarious. These are whoopie pies:

From an otherwise innocuous Washington Post gallery showing people in the snow and driving poorly:

The excellent Scouting NY has a remarkable gallery of photos from the abandoned Rockland Psychiatric Center. Click through, it’s worth it.