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Today in Rotten History

Jul 29 1921
The Council on Foreign Relations is incorporated in New York City by a group of bankers and other influentials, including John D Rockefeller. The CFR remains a vital component of the New World Order, and is surpassed in importance only by the Trilateral Commission. Now that you have this information, you know too much.

Jul 29 1921
Adolf Hitler is selected as leader of the National Socialist Party.

Jul 29 1941
The Grigglestone Colliery explodes, leaving 20 dead.

Jul 29 1968
Pope Paul VI issues encyclical

Humanae Vitae
, prohibiting all unnatural forms of birth control. He thereby answers the age-old question, "Does the Pope spurt in a condom?"

Jul 29 1974
Mama Cass Elliot, a very large part of

The Mamas and the Papas
, dies in London. Although initial reports ascribe the cause of death to choking on a ham sandwich, in actuality it was a heart attack.

Interesting articles that I didn't write:::

These are some of my favorite articles from the past few years.


Shooting Star - "Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there." Phoenix New Times | Local Mirror

Lake of Fire - "Cris-- You know me, but you've smoked so much coke since we last talked I should probably reintroduce myself...I'm the guy who will write your obituary, unless you stop this mad jig to death's fiddle. I imagine what's going on inside your hell portal of a home, and I see long, white finger bones, racing up and down the strings like spider legs, as you whirl ever faster." Phoenix New Times | Local Mirror

EPZ Money - "The inside story of two yankees who dodged the law, flew to Belize's Export Processing Zone, and flipped the switch on a get-rich-quick Internet casino. Too bad nobody mentioned the bugs." Wired | Local Mirror

Suspicious Silo: Cold War relic site of LSD-related intrigue - "There were suspicions about what was happening northwest of town, but Wamego residents had no idea of what was really going on." CJOnline.com | Local Mirror

Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off. - "Hunkered down on a North Sea fortress, a crew of armed cypherpunks, amped-up networking geeks, and libertarian swashbucklers is seceding from the world to pursue a revolutionary idea: an offshore, fat-pipe data haven that answers to nobody." Wired | Local Mirror

The Electric Kool-Aid Bandwidth Test - "Luke Stewart boldly sold politicians, businesspeople, and financiers on his trillion-dollar idea: Use the electrical grid to carry data at speeds faster than we've ever seen. Never mind how." Wired | Local Mirror



Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future. -- Pogo, by Walt Kelly