July 15, 2010
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This is my mom, Vickie. Today she passed a milestone that I’ll never make: she retired from her job with the state of Oklahoma after 387 years*. With budget cuts looming and just a few years short of her initially planned date, they offered her an out. Which she took. Smart cookie. She takes after [...]
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November 3, 2008
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Image by mrsonion42 via Flickr60 years ago today, the Chicago Tribune printed their famous “DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN” gaff. OOPS! And according to history reported on Google, not a godsdamned thing else happened that day.
I posit to you that a great travesty of justice occurred when those few hundred errant copies captured the attention of a [...]
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