Ignoring Today's World

If we're resorting to "This Date in History," you know nothing has caught our jaded fancy in today's world of anger, pain & fear. The Woodward book (item below) may be good for some laughs, but the colossal screw-ups of the Bush Administration should not be surprising to anyone now, except Republican dead-enders who just will not see what is before them. So let's look behind ourselves. Think we can learn anything? We don't either. 1927: Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, Xmitted the image of a line purely electronically, via his "image dissector." This caused telebision. Mr. Farnsworth has yet to apologize. Warren Zevon died five yrs. ago today. Tupac Shakur was plugged on Vegas' "Strip" in 1996. He succumbed to his wounds six days later. In the music bidness, Sonny Rollins hits 78,& Chrissie Hynde becomes a mere 57. Below: Ms. Hynde is a member of PETA & wants you to leave the llamas alone. "Stop killing spiders," or: "Ray Davies was only this big, seriously."