Godspeed Artemis II. Or as Walter Cronkite would have said: "Go Baby, GO!!!" Watching Artemis II launch, I felt like a seven-yea...

It was about 6:30 a.m. local time in the desert of Tunisia, on March 22, 1976, that the first scenes for George Lucas's film Star Wars  ...

It was fifty years ago tonight, on March 14th, 1976, that radio personality Doctor Demento played a song that had been submitted by one of h...

Lots of crazy stuff in the news this past week.  I've been sharing them with friends on Facebook, where they have engendered no small am...

Forty years ago today came the end of the childhood of my generation. The space shuttle Challenger  was blown to bits shortly after liftoff,...

I'm reading a number of stories regarding churches turning their nativity scenes into political statements about immigration agents enfo...

Those were the last words radioed out by the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald . It was fifty years ago tonight, November 10th, 1975, that the Edmund F...

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth this past week about the latest antics of President Donald Trump.  The East Wing of the Wh...

Eighty years ago today, in the early morning at a place called Trinity in the desert outside Alamagordo in the New Mexico desert, a new star...

Depending on who you listen to this was either legitimate corporate bungling on an unprecedented scale, or it was the greatest ever conspira...

Over the weekend I watched Gettysburg , the 1993 Civil War epic film about the Battle of Gettysburg.  It's one of my most favorite histo...

President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to release all the documents pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963...

The infamous "red speech" in Philadelphia, September 2022 Before I render a final grade for Joseph Robinette Biden's term as p...

I'm going to preface the remainder of this post by saying something which I probably didn't do my best to get across in this piece. ...

The past few days will go down in history.  The comparison I keep hearing is that "this is our Katrina" and that's not inaccur...

So help me, I'm going to show this cartoon from almost eighty years ago until I'm blue in the face, if that's what it takes to s...

 As my father said, when President Reagan was shot the day before my seventh birthday: "Pay attention son, this is history."      

  Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on th...

Today is the 120th anniversary of the first powered air flight, by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk on the  Outer Banks of North Carolina. ...

Doom , arguably the most installed piece of software in the history of anything, today celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its release. ...