Volume 270 | No. 25

2020—Rep. Katie Porter [D-Calif.]: “You don’t know the cost to mail a postcard?” Postmaster Louis DeJoy, laughing, confesses: “I don’t.” 1970—Graduate student Robert Fassnacht is killed and three others are injured when peaceniks blow up a physics lab at the U. of Wisconsin. 1967—Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin scatter 300 one-dollar bills on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Bedlam erupts as greedy capitalists scramble. 1964—I.F. Stone reports the U.S. government and press “have kept the full truth about the Tonkin Bay incidents from the American public.” 1963—The State Department orders Ambassador Lodge to encourage Vietnamese generals to stage a coup. 1954—Genial old Ike signs …

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2010—Gareth Williams, money-laundering investigator for MI6, is found dead inside a locked gym bag in a London “safe house.” Metropolitan Police rule he died accidentally, alone. 2000—The 2nd Circuit Court rules that aspiring cops can be denied a job on grounds that they’re too smart. 1985—San Francisco cops wince as Mayor Dianne Feinstein reveals their evidence in the “Night Stalker” case. 1971—Future Supreme Court Justice Powell releases The Memo: it exhorts billionaires to conspire and, using propaganda, negate the New Deal. 1968—Yippees nominate Pigasus J. Pig for President, saying, “if we can’t have him in the White House, we can have him for breakfast.” 1966—Robert …

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