This Wknd. in History

9 August: 1945: United Snakes forces nuke Nagasaki, three days after wreaking atomic havoc on Hiroshima. 1969: Manson Family killings of Sharon Tate & others in the exclusive Brentwood area of Los Angeles. 1974: Tricky Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United Snakes, Gerald Ford was sworn in as his successor. This led to fools like Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld, flunkies in the Ford administration, being scared witless that all kingly powers were being taken away from the "unitary executive," & is essentially the cause of the current administration's unilateral bullying & irresponsible wars, poor foreign policy, subversion of civil rights, blah blah blah. Amazing to think that Nixon was forced to resign merely by being named as an "un-indicted co-conspirator," & threatened w/ impeachment over a "third-rate burglary" & a bit of lying to the public, Clinton actually was impeached (by adulterous hypocrites, among others) on petty pseudo-moralistic bullshit, yet Bush, Cheney and the others responsible for the wrongful deaths, mutilations & dislocations of thousands upon thousands of Americans & Iraqis are allowed to continue the human slaughter & evisceration of the treasury w/ absolute impunity by our cowardly Congrefs. Not to mention the many other crimes, from the Stupreme Court's appointment of Bush onward. That sound is indeed Jefferson & many others whirling in their graves like dervishes. 1995: Jerry "Captain Trips" Garcia (described by the Associated Press as the "lead singer" of the Grateful Dead) died of a heart attack, aged 53, in San Francisco. Whatever. We've always thought of them as the Dreadful Grate, except for those first two albums. 2008: Funnyman Bernie Mac died of pneumonia, aged 50, in Chicago. Quite a day. Let's see what 10 August had in store for those who lived in the past. Not as exciting as yesterday, it turns out. 1921: FDR stricken w/ polio. 1969: Rosemary & Leno LaBianca offed by the Manson Family in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. Charlie waited in the car. 10 Aug B-Days: Singers Jimmy Dean (now the sausage magnate) & Eddie Fisher both hit 80. Ronnie Spector, 65. Ian (Jethro Tull) Anderson, 61. Randy Andy ("War good, no, war bad now") Sullivan is, per the AP, 45. Just Another Blog™ has seen pictures; if he's 45, we're 35.