May 27th: Today in 1933 the Walt Disney cartoon version of The Three Little Pigs was released. The movie is one of the best Disney shorts and the music is classic with many brilliant covers over the year. A very odd cover of Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf is available here, it is [...]
I am a bit of a London History buff and had never heard of the London Stone. Apparently I am not alone in this as its recent history shows. Interesting to see how legends wax and wane. Via Cronaca
May 26th: Today on 1637 a group of Puritans and Narragansett indians surrounded the Pequot village of Misistuck (Mystic) and in a sustained attack slaughtered the inhabitants, all but destroying the Pequot tribe. As with any event this far back there are many versions of what happened from the self serving to the the skeptics.
The Post hits it right on the head for me in this editorial on the corruption search on the Hill. Power corrupts, there are almost no exceptions (although everyone seems to think their congress people are the exceptions for some reason, it is the other guys who are all crooks). Always vote against the incumbent.
May 25th: Today in 1977 the first of the two Star Wars movies opened. I remember it very well, saw it on opening day with a friend who was also into comics. We were both comics fans and had bought the whole comic adaptation but neither of us had read the last issues as we [...]
I am so glad to know that Congress is just like us and thus completely immune from the due process of law. They have long been immune from arrest during session, now we find out they think you can’t even investigate them, even when the stink of corruption is nearly overwhelming. Congress is just like [...]