Daily Archives: April 24, 2004

The 55-foot Club

NEW YORK (AP) – Two gay lovers – a man in a black dress and a boy in only a pair of shorts – protested their families’ lack of understanding for their relationship by climbing a Central Park tree on … Continue reading

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Back Up – The Memory Hole

What happened to the Memory Hole? At this point it is unclear whether the Defense Department actually tried to prohibit access to Memory Hole, as has been reported by numerous reputable media sources. Some facts, however, are clear. The US … Continue reading

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Einstein’s Girlfriend’s Diary

In February librarians found a 62-page manuscript in which Johanna Fantova, a former curator of maps in the Firestone Library at Princeton University, who was 22 years younger than Albert Einstein, recorded his musings, opinions and complaints over the last … Continue reading

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Down the Memory Hole

Casualties in Iraq continue to rise in a daily slow bleed sparking twisted flashbacks of Vietnam three decades ago. Five American solders were killed around dawn when two rockets fired from a truck hit the U.S. base at Taji, 12 … Continue reading

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