If nothing else, the Bush administration will go down in history as having the longest list of meatiest scandals associated with it. There is a sweet list of the largest scandals involving administration officials over at TPMmuckraker. This list doesn’t address waterboarding, the Bill of Rights, the DoJ, Blackwater or any other entity or [...]
Daniel Kurtzman of the San Francisco Chronicle has written a brilliant article that highlights some of the hilarious things that politicians have said this year. Daniel also edits the political humor page at About.com.
The year’s most laughable political antics
Daniel Kurtzman Monday, December 31, 2007
The late-night comedians may have [...]
Today in 1599, the British East India Company is chartered.
Today in 1857, Queen Victoria selected Ottawa as the capital of the British colony of Canada.
Today in 1999 – Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
Celebrating Birthdays today are Charles Cornwallis, Henri Matisse, Max Pechstein, Martin O’Meara, [...]
The consumer advocates over at The Consumerist have compiled a list of all of the toys recalled for lead in this past year and the total is shocking!
17,181,210 toys were recalled for lead contamination. Note that this total has nothing to do with all of the other safety related issues.
The full list is [...]
Today in 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded.
Today in 1879, The Pirates of Penzance is first performed.
Today in 1924, Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
Today in 2006, Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging.
Celebrating Birthdays today are Charles Yorke, Émile Loubet, Rudyard Kipling, Bo Diddley, Sandy Koufax, Davy Jones, Concetta Tomei, [...]
A grant of 2.1 million pounds ($4.17 million) has been awarded to a team at the Imperial College London for the development of a new surgical tool dubbed the ‘i-Snake’. Essentially the i-Snake is a highly flexible, robotic tool which would allow for more complicated procedures to be done with what are essentially laparoscopic surgical [...]
Today in 1845, Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
Today in 1911, Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
Today in 1937, the Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
Celebrating Birthdays today are Charles Goodyear, Andrew Johnson, Pablo Casals, Ed [...]
As we draw ever closer to the New Year we are inundated by many ‘Best of’s..). Brooke and I watched our first Keith Olbermann Oddball special this week and there was the Louis Black Last Laugh 2007.
Rolling Stone – The 100 Best Songs of 2007, Popular Science – Best of What’s New ‘07, the list goes [...]
Here is a very interesting article about how the two front running Democratic hopefuls are dealing with the vile assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Clinton, Obama Seize on Killing Reactions Illustrate Their Key Differences
By Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writers [...]
I haven’t really posted in the last few days, just some Internet bargain sites and a little bit of Today in History. The reason I haven’t posted is because the topics that I’ve been posting about have been making me really, really angry. And I’m pretty tired of being angry.
We all know that the current [...]
Today in 1065, Westminster Abbey was consecrated.
Today in 1612, Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he thought it was a star.
Today in 1846, Iowa was admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
Today in 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Celebrating Birthdays today are [...]
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Today in 1831, Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, left Plymouth, England on what became an historic expedition to South America that made his name as a naturalist.
Today in 1932, Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
Today in 1945 the World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
Celebrating Birthdays [...]
A couple of weeks ago a non-news event surfaced that Karl Rove, the evil genius behind the Idiot-That-Is-Bush, was looking around for a publisher. Hoping to cash in on his perceived fame as ‘The Architect’ he was met with a distinct lack of interest by the major book publishers. In the end he was [...]
Today is the first day of Kwanzaa as well as Boxing Day, and St. Stephen’s Day.
Today in 1898 Physicists Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element, naming it radium.
Today in 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts.
Today in 1933 the FM radio is patented.
Celebrating Birthdays today [...]
