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Mon, Feb 23

2008—Because one maintenance crew fails to warn another that humid air confuses its sensors, a $1.4 billion B-2 bomber crashes in Guam. 2004—Rod Paige, U.S. Sec. of Education, calls the nation’s largest teachers union a “terrorist organization.” 1974—Days after presiding over his paper’s 100th birthday, and deep in debt to mobsters, Oakland Tribune owner and ex-Sen. William Knowland (R-Calif.), shoots himself dead. 1971—Lt. William Calley confesses to mass murder, and says his CO, Capt. Ernest Medina, ordered it. 1966—Barry Bondhus dumps human digestive byproduct on draft files in Elk River, Minn. He gets 14 months. 1954—Jonas Salk starts disrupting man’s natural relationship with polio. 1942—The …

Sun, Feb 22

2018—After jabbing him in the legs and groin for 2.5 hours, Alabama prison officials wheel cancer patient Doyle Hamm out of the death chamber alive. 2004—A Pentagon document leaks: it says climate change may spell doom. 1994—The FBI arrests a spy: 32-year CIA officer Aldrich Ames. 1974—Samuel Byck, planning to crash an airliner into the White House, carelessly shoots the pilot before takeoff. He’s then shot dead, too. 1965—The New York Times calls the late Malcolm X “an extraordinary and twisted man [who turned] many true gifts to evil purposes.” 1965—Sam Lovejoy derails a planned nuke plant in Montague, Mass. by downing a tower with …

Sat, Feb 21

2012—Caught by the Piscataqua’s mighty current during construction of the New Memorial Bridge,the tugboat Miss Stacy nearly sinks. 1975—“Original Dick” Nixon’s top goons, John Mitchell [ex-AG!], Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman, each get 2 ½ years in the slammer for conspiring—yes, there’s that C-word again—to do more than will fit here. 1965—A week after his home was firebombed, assassins murder Malcolm X; his last words: “Brothers! Brothers! This is a house of peace.” The FBI knew it was coming but didn’t tell the NYPD which didn’t care anyway. One assailant, not the killer, is jailed, along with two innocent men. 1934—The U.S.-backed Nicaraguan National Guard …

Yet Another Shocking New Low

Dear Editor: Throughout Donald Trump’s sordid life there have been many examples of actions and words that were despicable and disgusting. The list is too long to cover all of them, but there was, for example, the Central Park Five episode, his mocking a handicapped journalist, and the disrespect shown to Gold Star parents. Unfortunately, Mr. Trump continues this behavior on almost a daily basis, but recently he may have hit a new low for even him, if that is possible. In a Truth Social clip, Mr. Trump depicted former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as what appeared to be a cartoon …

For more than a decade now, the dominant feature of human existence has become a thickening fog of uncertainty. Some of this is the inevitable result of technological “progress.” We have all had times when labor-saving devices have prevented us from getting anything done. That was bad enough in the physical realm. Now that reality has largely been digitized, we can no longer be sure that we know what we think we know. And that’s just the nuts and bolts of the problem. Just as technology has been advancing at an accelerating pace, so has the use of brazen falsehood. Elders among us can recall …

Volume 270, No. 12

The Governor has been saying since last year that she has been kept in the dark about ICE’s proposed gulag in Merrimack. Then along comes Todd Lyons, MAGA bureaucrat, who contradicts her in no uncertain terms. The Guv rebuts, “this is not true.” Bring on the popcorn. To read our latest issue, just give this link a click.