“The tedious, self-serving volume is filled with efforts
to blame others… It is a book that
suffers from many of the same flaws that led the administration into
what George Packer of The New Yorker has called “a needlessly deadly”
undertaking — that is, cherry-picked data, unexamined assumptions and an
unwillingness to re-examine past decisions.”
Fans of thriller writers Ian Fleming (James Bond) and Raymond Chandler should enjoy this 1958 recording from the BBC.
February of 2011 will be National African American History Month, as proclaimed by the president. President Barack Obama issued the proclamation yesterday, following a tradition started in 1976 by President …..
The swimsuit worn by actress Farrah Fawcett in her famous 1976 poster is being donated to the Smithsonian Institute by her former husband, Ryan O’Neal.
Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this morning. That means an early spring, if you believe in a groundhog’s ability to predict the weather.
The mother of Frankenstein died 160 years ago today.It’s been closer to 200 years since she first published Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus in 1818.
If Punxsutawney Phil is smart he’ll stay hunkered down in his groundhog burrow tomorrow morning.
“Having Mohamed ElBaradei atop a million-person revolution is not unlike
having the head of your school’s debate club quarterbacking the varsity
football team in the state championships.”
Booker T. Washington and guests, about 1906. Washington is front row, center, with the watch chain. Booker T. Washington is our first featured biography for Black History Month 2011.
Well, they almost said it in Cairo.Too bad we don’t have a cilp of Thomas Paine singing “Walk Like a Pennsylvanian.” You know he would have been on YouTube.