On April 3, 1860, the Pony Express begins operations, as riders simultaneously depart St. Joseph, MO and Sacramento, CA carrrying about 20 pounds...
You can have my toilet paper when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I know a lot of people were disappointed in the final season but I thought it was some of the best television sci fi ever done, especially the...
So did the reboot of Battlestar Galactica. For the uninitiated, the woman is a Cylon. [MEDIA]
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On April 2, 2005, Pope John Paul II dies at the Vatican. The Catholic Church forbids autopsy on the Pope, but it is believed he had Parkinson's...
But if you catch it, how reliable will the evidence be in finding that one contaminated person who passed it on to you? Hey, at the start of...
And how do we hold the stupid, arrogant and uncaring accountable?
The War Powers Acts during World War II took away multiple economic freedoms. The war ended, and those freedoms were given back. OTOH, we didn't...
What I'd like to see happen is for everybody, every single American, to abide by the recommended behaviors we're getting from our governors and...
My archdiocese (Houma-Thibodaux) suspended masses a little over 3 weeks ago. That day my pastor called me, asking for my help to set up a...
Many things happen on April 1... On April 1, 1789,Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania is elected the first Speaker of the U.S....
The Sooners sure let them down this year.
Just messing with you. I've never seen the play or the movie. When I wrote that this morning, I went looking on youtube to see if there was...
On March 31, 1991, the Warsaw Pact—the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites—comes to an end. Formed in...
If you're not up on your text acronyms, I specifically said, take it For What Its Worth, which, without attribution, may be nothing.
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he exits a Washington DC hotel. Reagan had just finished a speech and was...
I saw that one too. Also saw a tweet from a guy who claims to work "in a medical examiner's office" and says in that area (didn't say where),...
On March 29, 1973, under the terms of the Paris Peace Accords, the last US combat troops leave Vietnam. American troops had been fighting on the...
Bang on target. Make the problem go away first, then worry about who caused it.
