Category Archives: Today in History

History!

Posted on March 19, 2021 by tengrain

This is historic, and I’m sorry I missed it: Thank you @POTUS Biden and @VP Harris. I am honored and ready to work. I look forward to tackling some of the nation's most pressing issues with @Interior so that future … Continue reading →

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Posted on January 27, 2021 by tengrain

Because: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –George Santayana

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Today in History

Posted on December 18, 2020 by tengrain

We impeached the mother-eff’er on this day in 2019.

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Yesterday, In History

Posted on December 13, 2020 by tengrain

…Bush v. Gore was ruled 20 years ago. The essential Election Law Blog has a good post up that compares/contrasts then vs. now, and some lessons we should have learned. To the degree that history repeats, we have a chance … Continue reading →

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Today in History

Posted on October 6, 2020 by tengrain

On this day, the Virgin Mayor of Keg City became a Justice of the US Supreme Court.

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Falling Into History: 2020 Edition

Posted on September 11, 2020 by tengrain

[Ed. Note: We’ve been running this post since the blog began. It is from the SF Chronicle a lifetime ago, when we were younger and perhaps less cynical. And given how Prznint Stupid tried to float OBL’s niece threatening another … Continue reading →

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Today in History

Posted on August 8, 2020 by tengrain

Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.

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Today In History

Posted on August 6, 2020 by tengrain

The U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people.Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000. It’s always worth noting that this … Continue reading →

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Today in History…

Posted on April 22, 2020 by tengrain

…Richard Nixon died. And this means it is time to re-read Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s euolgy for ol’ Tricky Dick. Every word, every syllable is perfect. It’s as good a piece of muscular prose as anything the Good Doctor ever … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Space Needle!

Posted on April 21, 2020 by tengrain

Today in 1962, The Space Needle was open to the public at the World’s Fair Everytime I look at the Jetson’s-era Space Needle (which is most days), it gives me both a sense of profound loss and of renewed hope. … Continue reading →

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