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 [...]

Thursday, November 1, 2007 –Portsmouth’s Halloween Parade just keeps getting better. Here, Parade Grand Marshal Donald Trumpet, accompanied by his gold-plated Trophy Wife, is preceded by two of his Yes Men. We’d say more but the paper is due at the printer’s. Here are a few notable items from November 1’s gone by:
2004—Voting machines are [...]

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 –The high point of Portsmouth’s social season comes this evening, about 7:00 p.m., when an odd assortment of characters will step off from the parking lot beside the South Mill Pond, and parade through downtown.
1968—President Johnson orders a halt to bombing of North Vietnam.
1967—Calif. governor Ronald Reagan denies a “homosexual ring” [...]

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 – Jeez, Louise. Just when you get a good rhythm going, one of the local cable monopoly’s amplifiers goes blooey, and fries your modem, and then fries the replacement modem they give you, and you can’t get online for days. Ah, well, we’re back. Here are some items from Page [...]