35 days until the 43rd President of the United States can get back to the important job of drinking in public.
Christmas video countdown -
December 16
The Boston Tea Party took place 235 years ago today.
A group of young colonists, dressed as native Americans, stormed a few British ships in Boston Harbor and tossed their tea cargo overboard in protest of the British insistence that Americans ride their horses on the left-hand side of the street. While this is often remembered as a defining historical moment in the development of our proud nation, it should not be forgotten that Boston Harbor was for a long time one of our most polluted waterways. I equally deplores the ecologically disastrous precedent set by these hotheaded young good-for-nothings, and their demeaning depiction of native Americans as savage, tea-hating polluters.
December 16, 1950 -
President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War. With all the business going on in the world in the intervening 58 years, the order is still in effect, one of four current states of national emergency granting extraordinary powers to the President.
What the hell were we thinking.
December 16, 1977 -
Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta, is released on this date.
Feel the Night Fever in your polyester shirts kids.
December 16, 1985 -
John Gotti was looking to improve his position with IBM (the Gambino crime syndicate.) He had his boss Paul Castellano ventilated at Spark's Steak House in Manhattan.
23 years - where has the time gone? What were you doing 23 years ago. I was walking past Mr. Castellano stretch limo 10 minutes before he got offed.
Thought for the day:
When forced to choose between two evils, try the new one.
And remember to tip your waitress.
Continue to shop til you drop, 5 more shopping days until Hanukkah, 8 more shopping days until Christmas.
And so it goes.
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