Orange crush

Published 1:55 pm Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Cool Whip straight from the tub for dessert? There should be enough pumpkins for Halloween jack-o-lanterns this year, but maybe not for the canned pumpkin used in Thanksgiving pies, according to crop experts in Illinois, the country’s top pumpkin-producing state.

If a similar shortage hits the Stove Top Stuffing industry, a disaster declaration from President Barack Obama may be in order.

Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: “The Man in the High Castle,” a drama premiering next month on Amazon, is set in an alternate-reality 1960s America in which there is no counterculture youth rebellion because the U.S. was conquered by the Nazis in World War II.

No rock ‘n’ roll, bra-burning feminists or dirty hippies — in other words, Idaho.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1989, the Communist Party of Hungary renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism.

Undecided about his next move, Bernie Sanders flipped a coin: Heads Vermont. Tails Hungary. It was heads.

— Mark Carlson and Jon Bauer, Herald staff