Today is the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre.
18 March 2009
They will be heroes
Today is the 175th anniversary of the sentencing of the Tolpuddle Martyrs for having the temerity to form an insidious trade union. Thank God that can never happen today!
24 February 2009
"A spectre is haunting Europe..."
Wingnuts beware. Today is the 161st anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto. Undoubtedly that fifth columnist in the White House has some private secret celebration planned.
You will note that the good folks at The Spectator seem to have cropped the words "fifth columnist" from the article as written by pre-eminent right wing nut case Melanie Phillips but, once again, they have been found out by Google cache!
You will note that the good folks at The Spectator seem to have cropped the words "fifth columnist" from the article as written by pre-eminent right wing nut case Melanie Phillips but, once again, they have been found out by Google cache!
21 January 2009
Today in infamy
Thirty two years ago today I was pardoned by Jimmy Carter; an act for which I am forever grateful.
01 December 2008
Today in infamy
On this day in 1955 a tired Negro woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a richly deserving white man and America has been heading down the slippery slope towards multi-culturalism and away from the Anglo-Saxon dominated society envisioned by the founding fathers every since.
16 October 2008
Today in infamy
10 years ago today, at the behest of a Spanish judge, British police arrested alleged war criminal Augusto Pinochet in a London hospital. I would think that "I'm a Big" Dick Cheney should consider his future movements carefully!
23 September 2008
Today in infamy
On this day, 56 years ago, Vice President Richard Nixon gave his infamous Checkers speech and got to keep his job; and his wife's respectable Republican cloth coat; and the dog. When I was at university one of my mates had a copy of the speech on Super 8; we used to watch it whilst smoking bongs of Afghani hash - endless hours of entertainment.
After eight years of Captain Codpiece I am suddenly nostalgic for the good old Nixon years.
28 August 2008
Today in infamy
On this day in 1955 14 year old Emmett Till was tortured and murdered by good Christian white folk in Money, Mississippi.
07 August 2008
Today Yesterday in infamy
I almost forgot. Yesterday was the 63rd anniversary of the largest and worst terrorist attack in the history of humankind.
22 June 2008
Today in infamy - "thank God this could never happen today" edition
On this day in 1633 Galileo Galilei was sentenced by a Shari'a Roman Catholic court for having the temerity to believe the truth. Fortunately, 475 years later, America is a country ruled by reason where nothing of this sort of ever happen again!
17 June 2008
Today in infamy
On this day in 1972, when I was still in high school, a bunch of Republican criminals broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in Washington DC and the rest is history.
The saddest thing of all is that, after nearly 8 years of Captain Codpiece and his evil minions, the Nixon Republicans are looking better and better (and not nearly as criminal)!
The saddest thing of all is that, after nearly 8 years of Captain Codpiece and his evil minions, the Nixon Republicans are looking better and better (and not nearly as criminal)!
13 June 2008
Yesterday in infamy
Somehow I missed the fact that yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers by a cowardly, white, Christian, full blooded American terrorist.
Today in infamy - "well how the hell are we going to get them to Grannie's by Xmas now?" edition
On this day in 1920 the US Post Office ruled that children could not be sent parcel post as live animals. I reckon that means that they may still be posted as long as you kill them first.
12 June 2008
Today in infamy - "just don't take it as carry on" edition
111 years ago today the Swiss Army knife was born thereby ensuring that no Swiss soldier would ever be with a cork screw, screw driver, bottle opener or nail file again!
11 June 2008
Today in infamy - "ain't no nigras goin' here" edition
Forty five years ago today George Wallace, the courageous Governor of Alabama, stood in a doorway at the University of Alabama in a vain attempt to prevent two African-American students from enrolling.
10 June 2008
Today in infamy - "because nothing like Sharia could ever happin in America (again)" edition
On this day in 1692 Bridget Bishop was the first, but not the last, woman hanged in Salem MA for witchcraft.
07 June 2008
Today in infamy - "where the hell are we going to put the spoils of the Empire?" edition
On this day in 1753 King George II gave royal assent to the bill establishing the British Museum. By the way the Greeks still want those statues back!
05 June 2008
Today in infamy - "best President we never had" edition
Forty years ago today Robert Kennedy was assassinated in California and a minimum of 10,000 new conspiracy theories were born.
01 June 2008
Today in infamy - "how far we haven't come" edition
On this day in 1869, one hundred and thirty nine years ago, Thomas Edison received a patent for a electric voting machine. I'll bet it had a paper trail!
30 May 2008
Today in infamy - "dead man in Deptford" edition
On this day in 1593 playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a pub at Deptford. This was back when Deptford was safer than it is today.
For those of you who haven't read Anthony Burgess's outstanding novel about the murder of Kit Marlowe, A Dead Man in Deptford
, I heartily reccommend it.
For those of you who haven't read Anthony Burgess's outstanding novel about the murder of Kit Marlowe, A Dead Man in Deptford
, I heartily reccommend it.
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