I am looking to put together a list of music about historical events or about notable people in history and would love have any suggestions that you all have to help out. I am looking for ‘Pop’ music rather than classical or historical pieces, so Johnny Horton’s Sink the Bismark or the Waterboys Red Army [...]
There seems to be pent up demand for Squirrel news today and never let it be said that I won’t pander to my audience. It has been a slow summer for squirrels, no squirrel packs eating Russian dogs, no massive power outages placed at their door, ok a couple of little power outages including one [...]
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Not in my back yard!
Sharks found that have been eating polar bears. See sharks are clearly the winner of this year’s Summer of Fear, they are bleedin eating the runners up. That is a true Summer of Fear champion!
August 3rd: Today in 1936 Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics by winning the 100 yard dash event. Jesse Owens is often used as an example of pluck, a black ‘racial inferior’ in German terms of the day who came and beat their best athletes but it [...]
August 2nd: Today in 1943 the Motor Torpedo Boat 109 commanded by a young John F. Kennedy was cut in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Two of the crew died in the collision but the crew found their way to an uninhabited island and were found and rescued. Overall a pretty insignifigant incident in [...]