May 2010 - Argghhh!

"ARLINGTON, Va. – Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday there is no question that the person or persons behind the failed bombing attempt in Times Square intended to spread terror across New York.Investigators have some good leads in addition to the videotape of a middle-aged man who could be seen shedding his shirt near the SUV where the bomb was found, the attorney general said in remarks to reporters.Holder said it is too early in the probe to say whether the incident was of foreign...

Busy day during the Civil War. There are 32 Medals awarded for actions on this day, 31 during the Civil War and one during the Indian Campaigns. As is usual for the 19th century awards, none are posthumous.Civil War. Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the early stages of the Vicksburg Campaign dominate today.BALLEN, FREDERICK Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 47th Ohio Infantry. Place and date: At Vicksburg, Miss., 3 May 1863. Entered service at: Adrian, Mich. Born: 1842, Germany. Date...

WTF, over?Time to kick over my rants about awards policy in the era of the Medal of Posthumous Honor (there are rumors that one is working that might go to a living recipient, if they don't die of old age first). You laugh - some of the historical Medals that are listed as posthumous are because the recipient simply wore out before someone got around to making the decision, not because they died earning the Medal. There have been Medals awarded to living people in the last 20 years - but only...

Chuck Z is looking for some help getting his wife recognized as the saint she is. Hey, ladies - you should *all* go vote for Carren - she took Chuck off the street and made it safer for the rest of you... I wanna see Bill and Dusty fly these. I especially like the one with the battleship turrets.Isn't it grand to know that you live in a society where there is so much excess economic activity that we can actually pay academics to study this question: Do Nature Films Deny Animals Their Right to...

Moar here....

In our last episode, which was the last episode but wasn’t the *last* episode, otherwise this episode wouldn’t be here, because the *last* episode would have been the *last* episode, and even though*whap!*Thank you. As you recall, our hapless intrepid antagonists protagonists had just recovered from BCR activating the Credomaran Death Ray, thus triggering (heh) the inadvertent destruction of the world as we know it, and were waiting for the cordite fumes to disperse.*whooooof!*There....

A primer for those of you who are planning to undertake a visit to The Home Of Maggie. For whatevah reason.The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End. The bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge via Massachusetts Avenue is commonly known as the Harvard Bridge . When it was built...