Territorial Bloggings

Happy Birthday, sweetie!
You are the best big sister that a bratty/beautiful/bodacious baby brother could ever have. I don’t deserve you, but I’m glad I have you. Thank you for setting such a great example, for setting the bar high, for always being there, for loving me, and for being such a great friend.
You, in a [...]

March 5, 1982 - John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose, at 33 years of age.
WDTM? It means that we lost a comedic giant. And there’s no more bitterly ironic reminder of that loss than to view his brother Jim spew his thin comedic gruel each week on According to Jim. (I kid, [...]

January 29, 1936 - The first members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, New York.
WDTM? Well, the most significant data point is this: None of the initial inductees were unanimous choices. This ushered in the era of pompous & boneheaded sportswriters completely jacking up [...]

January 24, 1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

WDTM? The two most significant decisions at Casablanca were the demand of an unconditional surrender by the Axis, and the agreement to aid the Soviets. Thus began the journey down the slippery slope of FDR thinking [...]