Diet Deficit Delight
Sarah Palin continues rummaging around the Reagan legend cupboard, searching for a usable past.
She fished up a gem in her Thanksgiving day ramblings, quoting the voice from beyond that
 

“all great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

What change did the master of folksy smarm propose back in those halcyon days?
His salute […]

Bold New Platform       
George W. Bush has announced exciting new plans for his Presidential Library, spraying the horizon with many, many numbered lists of intentions, notions and fanciful ideas.
Just what will his legacy be all about?
The Bush Library will continue Bush’s on-going worldwide effort to devalue words by grasping them tightly to himself:
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Hallowed Be Thy Name
Having already made Ronald Reagan the equivalent of  Roman emperor, Republicans may go the next logical step and proclaim him a god.
A resolution proposed for the Republican National Committee Winter Meeting attempts to tie Republican candidates to a series of  ten conditions.  Reagan’s name is evoked five times in his role […]

Vanity Plot?               
Anxious to display something, anything which had touched the great man for the Lincoln Bicentennial, in 2007 the Kentucky Historical Society spent $19,000 on a pair of earrings which may, or may not, have belonged to Lincoln’s wife.
The earrings history is sketchy. Basically, it’s a letter from a guy who once owned […]

You’ll Always Remember When You First Heard
Anniversaries not divisible by five never get the respect of their more numerically endowed brethren, but this year’s Kennedy assassination anniversary has had some high-points.
 
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold  
 
Your USAToday published a “where-did-it-end-up?” roundup of assassination related objects - planes, cars and oddities.  The items are […]