Category Archives: Dubious Moments in History

With the winds of war sweeping Europe and America barely recovering from the Great Depression, the roiling topic leading into the 1940 Presidential election was whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt would step aside or stick his tipped cigarette in the eye … Continue reading →

There’s a lot of talk about the testicles that Hillary Clinton will need to bring to the Presidency if elected. A woman has to be tough. When you’re leading The Free World and dealing with an All-Star Rogues’ Gallery of … Continue reading →

You wouldn’t know it now in the age of bland, marketing-driven Presidential campaign slogans like “Change You Can Believe In”, “Yes We Can”, “Putting People First”, “Building A Bridge To The 21st Century” and even going back a few decades … Continue reading →

There’s no crying in baseball, as Tom Hanks once said, and since there’s no baseball in Maine (excepting, of course, the great Irv Ray), Maine Senator Edmund Muskie apparently never got the memo. The 1972 Presidential Race and possibly the … Continue reading →