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The following pairings:

House/Fringe
Countdown/TRMS (Rachel Maddow)

are going to be a hell of a lot of fun for the next several years.

Fringe is starting out better than House did.

Everyone who should still be alive is still alive ( Read more... )

"Friends of God Instructional Ministries, Inc. is in need of an editor."

First thought: "FoGgie has a publishing house? DEAR GOD, THE PAIN!"

Ted informs me that he's going to have a chat with his boss today about a resurgence in Tom's less professional tendencies ( Read more... )

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5361529

Cancer (no shock to those familiar with his medical history).

I'm nowhere near a fan of him personally, but cancer sucks, dying in your 50s sucks for all concerned, and his people don't deserve this pain.

June 18 is the nth anniversary of the fining of Susan B. Anthony for voting.

I have written two diary entries on this. The first is reasonably serious, and the second couldn't be more snark if I were writing it for April Fools' Day.

( The first )

He was born a slave, and he died in anonymity.

So goeth the obituary for too many millions of black Americans.

But this one is different. The oldest of five children, this ex-slave was taught to read, as a child (first by a fellow slave, when teaching a black person to read was a crime) on and got himself appointed to West Point, becoming the ( Read more... )

Ordinarily, a man whose introduction to professional scholarship dealt with earwax would not be famous in medical circles, but this man is different ( Read more... )

On June 13, 1966, Miranda rights were born.

On June 13, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court.

On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers ( Read more... )