May 2009
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April 2009
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Breaking: Arlen Specter to switch parties, giving... →
(* Assuming Franken is eventually sworn in and Lieberman behaves)
Watch“Silver Spring” was originally intended for the seminal, multi platinum, Rumors. Years after the fact Nicks commented that in a way it’s lack of inclusion on the effort marked a growing tension in the band. … The track’s inherent longing reportedly came from the ending of the romantic relationship between Nicks and Buckingham. … In the live version from The...
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will...”
– Nixon’s speech if Armstrong and Aldrin had died on the moon (1969)
What you should be afraid of instead of terrorists →
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, between 310,000 and 580,000 of us will commit suicide by cigarette this year. Another 260,000 to 470,000 will go in the ground due to poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. And some 85,000 of us will drink to our own departure.
After the person in the mirror, the next most dangerous individual we’re ever likely to encounter is one in...
ATL
I have a 4.5 hour layover in Atlanta on Thursday — any suggestions?
How the liberation of Paris was made "whites only"... →
“The leader of the Free French forces, Charles de Gaulle, made it clear that he wanted his Frenchmen to lead the liberation of Paris. Allied High Command agreed, but only on one condition: De Gaulle’s division must not contain any black soldiers.
In January 1944 Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, was to write in a memo stamped, “confidential”: “It is more desirable...
