New Additions and Updates
Did a little spring cleaning last night (yeah, I'm early but so what, yesterday was beach weather in Santa Cruz) on the blog and moved some things around, added a new personal page of Links so that I may start to weed the ever growing list down and put them on their own page. Am starting to cull out the dead and dying blogs from the links as well.

Also, added a New Word to that page, blegging - the act of taking a blog and turning it into a donation station revenue generator, i.e. making public pleas for money from readers.

And Today in History: (with comments in parantheses)
- 1858 A French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes. (apparently it was a damned slow news day back in 1858)
- 1892 Pike's Peak (Colorado) is set aside as a forest preserve. (and later turned into the hill climb of all hill climbs, the Pike's Peak Challenge, good fun!)
- 1937 General Motors agreed to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union, thereby ending the current sit-down strike against them. (and we've been paying them off ever since in higher priced cars put together by people who CANNOT lose their jobs)
- 1942 The comic book, "Archie" makes its debut. (and the four adoring fans worldwide went totally crazy)
- 1960 Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the "Tonight Show," with four minutes left. He did this in response to censors cutting out a four-minute joke from the show the night before.
- 1979 Nine days after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran (after 15 years in exile) power was seized by his followers. (and Iran has just been the paragon of peace and tranquility ever since)
- 1984 The tenth Space Shuttle mission returned to Earth safely. (Um, no comment today)
- 1990 After 27 years in prison, South African opposition leader Nelson Mandela is released. (predates my African time by a couple of years but the impact was still being felt while I was there and there's a picture of Mr. Mandela at a show with my brother, big goofy grin and all, sitting behind him)
- 1993 Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position. (and her subsequent snafus with Waco and the Branch Davidians and Elian Gonzalez went very far to totally scuttling any further career ambitions she might have had).