January 31st, 2008

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Incoming!

Barack Obama told the editorial board of the Reno Journal Gazette that “I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.”

Now, Bill Clinton talks trajectories in a cartoon by Don Asmussen:

Falling Spy Satellite to Hit Obama

Airy Persiflage

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Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

I was electronically incommunicado most of the day yesterday, so this posting is a day late.

Yesterday, January 30, 2008, was the 75th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of the Lone Ranger.

Coincidentally, it was also the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor in Germany.

Both events took place on January 30, 1933. (Lone Ranger was better.)

That’s trivia for you!

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Shake This Land

A song by Cat Power, titled Maybe Not.

There’s a dream that I see, I pray it can be
Look cross the land, shake this land

An election year is a good opportunity to shake this land.