Tuesday, November 20, 2007 – A reasonable person might well wonder just what’s going on around here. And we’re not talking about the somewhat unusual motor vehicle depicted above, we’re talking about this operation: the online presence of the nation’s most venerable newspaper.
Sorry to disappoint, but the answer is, nothing to get excited about. We’re [...]

Sunday, November 11, 2007 – On Veterans Day six years ago the remains of the World Trade Center were still smoking, and the war in Afghanistan had just begun. No one, outside the Bush administration, was thinking that much about Iraq. The idea of attacking Iran would have seemed even crazier than it does now.
Lower [...]

Saturday, November 10, 2007 – Well, now, we’re got ourselves a brand-new Attorney General. What do you know. Three years to the day since John Ashcroft punched out for the last time.
2004—John Ashcroft, having done enough damage, resigns as Attorney General. His replacement will make him look good.
1982—Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee [...]

Friday, November 9, 2007 — If anyone has Charles Justice’s last words (see 1911), please send them along.
1998—NASDAQ brokerage houses pay bilked customers $1 billion fine for rigging the game.
1989—The Berlin Wall becomes porous.
1979—Due to a computer error, for six minutes the U.S. Air Defense Command mistakenly believes that the U.S.S.R. is attacking the [...]

Thursday, November 8, 2007 – Perhaps the most optimistic thing we can say about this sordid string of items, is that it tends to put today’s horrors in perspective.
1994—Under the leadership of serial philanderer Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party gains control of Congress.
1983—Moscow puts its nuclear forces on high alert and sends flash telegrams to [...]

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 — Here we offer further proof — as if any were needed — of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s telling observation, “[t]hings are more like they are now than they ever were before.”
2002—“War is not my first choice,” lies George W. Bush, “it’s my last choice.”
2000—The American people vote for a president. They [...]

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 – We’ve now established a category for these Page Sixteen posts, and, in the process, re-written their headlines. We do hope that isn’t a violation of netiquette.
1984—It’s mourning in America as Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale.
1977—A dam owned and modified by the Toccoa Falls Bible Institute in Georgia fails, and kills [...]

Monday, November 5, 2007—We skipped posting for a couple of days because we feared our slacker credentials might otherwise tarnish.
2004—A Franklin Co. (OH) official reports that Pres. Bush’s 3,893 vote total in one district is erroneous—only 638 ballots were cast.
1994—File under “Non-News:” Ronald Reagan announces he has Alzheimer’s.
1949—Deranged WW II vet Howard Unruh shoots and [...]

Friday, November 2, 2007 – You see what we have to live with around here: weird alien serpent creatures, zombies, &c., &c. Is it any wonder we like to revisit the past, and see what happened on this day in history?
2004—Warren Co. (OH) officials count votes behind locked doors because of an alleged “terrorist threat.”
2002—“We [...]