Greta -- one of the more neurotic and sweet dogs you'd ever want to meet -- turns six today. I'm baking her a cake, which is just the sort of.
Happy birthday to George Washington.
Edward Geary Lansdale was born 100 years ago today.Ed Lansdale was the sort of fellow for whom the term "blowback" was coined. During his long career with the Office of.
Richard Bruce ("Dick") Cheney turns 67 today.Words fail. . . . Mr. Trend discovers that Cheney shares his birthday with Phil Collins. And I'll simply note the *cough* coincidence that.
One of the great traitors of the Civil War era, John Cabell Breckinridge, was cut loose into the world on this date in 1821. Born less than a year after.
Richard Milhous Nixon was born 95 years ago today. After California's gubernatorial election in 1962, one observer wrote that Richard Nixon had been sent to “that small place in history.
Note: I wrote this last year before the birthday series actually started; in the spirit of inclusion -- and because I just received a large pile of stuff to grade.
Strom Thurmond, one of the US Senate’s greatest sexual profligates and enduring racist icons, was born 105 years ago today. As the Democratic governor of South Carolina, Thurmond joined fellow.
