Friday, February 05, 2010

Hunkering

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WaPo headline: “Snowstorm’s Intensity Has D.C. Region Hunkering Down.” Since it’s D.C., I suspect a euphemism. CONTEST: What does it mean...

Today -100: February 5, 1910: Of British elections

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Nothing of interest in the NYT today, so I’ll backtrack to the British general election, which I think is finally finished. In those days v...
Thursday, February 04, 2010

Today -100: February 4, 1910: Of negroes and Scots, and substitutes

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Thomas Watson, twice the Populist candidate for president, in that party’s declining years, fiercely criticizes Andrew Carnegie for saying ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Then why are they grunting and pounding the ground?

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Quote of the Day: An AP article about the opinions of military personnel about gays in the military quotes an ex-infantry sergeant: “These ...

Today -100: February 3, 1910: Of big thigh bones and awkward reunions

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Republican congresscritters agree with President Taft on a legislative program: statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, an appointed legislat...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Good evening

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The caption on this picture reads “Vatican City: A dove flies back into Pope Benedict XVI’s apartment after he released it.” Evidently papal...

Today -100: February 2, 1910: Of unexpected senators, unconstitutional taxes, retaliatory car licenses, and how to end war

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Names of the Day -100: Senator Fountain Land Thompson of North Dakota has resigned after less than two months in office following the death...
Monday, February 01, 2010

The most transparent White House in history

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Obama had a “YouTube interview” today. HE’S GOT A CERTIFICATE! “I would say that we have been certified by independent groups as the most ...

Today -100: February 1, 1910: Of the dignity paid by Americans to high office, and getting gay

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Taft tells reporters that he enjoys strolling around D.C., looking in the shop windows, and “seeing some person give him a long look and th...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

God-given right to carry

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Quote of the Day: Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, who wants to legalize the carrying of concealed firearms without a permit, says wit...

Today -100: January 31, 1910: Of expensive bibles, slavery in Texas, train crashes, and corn mush

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The price of Bibles is about to go up . Federal agents have been investigating cotton plantations in Texas, where 2,000+ people – white as ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Political steel-cage match

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We knew there’d be a problem with the trial of Scott Roeder when we heard that Judge Warren Wilbert paid for an election ad in the Kansans f...

Today -100: January 30, 1910: Of kaisers, Serbia, and odious jobs

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Kaiser Wilhelm’s 51st birthday , “and the entire Fatherland song for twenty-four hours the patriotic refrain of ‘Hoch der Kaiser.’” (which I...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Today -100: January 29, 1910: Of Groce and Cannon, and bulldogs

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Members of the court-martial in Nicaragua that “illegally” sentenced Groce and Cannon to death have been acquitted after former president Z...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Your logic is not like our earth logic

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Scott Roeder, testifying in his trial for murdering Dr. George Tiller, said he is against abortion because “It is not man’s job to take lif...

SOTU addendum

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EXCEPT PHILOSOPHY MAJORS, OBVIOUSLY: “In the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.”

And it will kill Bill Murray with its laser eyes

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PETA wants Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog replaced in the Groundhog Day festival with a robot groundhog (William Deeley, president of the ...

Today -100: January 28, 1910: Of billy clubs and snow balls, aerial warfare, and church-going saloon-keepers

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Three more NYPD officers have been fired for clubbing citizens, including one who clubbed small children to break up a snowball fight. The...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

State of the Union Address: People expect us to solve problems, not run for the hills

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WILL THIS BE ON THE TEST? “Again, we are tested.” GOSH, HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED: “One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy r...

I refuse to punish the people

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Rather than raise taxes on rich people, Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cuts, or implemented them through the line-item veto, to support ...