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 of the Communist Party and all-around fun guy, kicks off from a bad ticker.

1975—The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior, taking with her a crew of 29.

1973—In Drake, North Dakota the school board fires a teacher and burns the book he assigned, Slaughterhouse Five.

1964—In Australia, the draft is re-introduced, apparently to protect that part of the British Empire from invasion by Ho’s forces.

1950—Flying over Canada a U.S. Air Force crew in a B-50 experiences engine trouble. They chuck the bomb (minus its plutonium core) which then explodes in Riviere du Loup, Quebec.

1898—400 Democratic Party activists in Wilmington, N.C. murder 40 to 100 blacks, depose the mayor, and establish a new government by force.

1871—Newspaperman Henry Morton Stanley, meeting a white man near Lake Tanganyika, says “Dr. Livingston, I presume?”

1775—The Continental Congress creates the Marine Corps.