Walter Cronkite has lost his wife of sixty-five years. That has to be a blow.

I just realized that today’s the Ides of March.

Why yes, yes I am trying to avoid work. Why do you ask?

Rosie O’Donnell has a blog. It’s much worse than you might imagine.

…why Harry Stonecipher was really fired.

He wasn’t popular, particularly with a lot of the former McDonnell Douglas people, and a lot of people think that he’s been doing with Boeing’s aircraft business the same thing that he did with theirs–running it into the ground, with Boeing now second place to Airbus. Certainly the Sonic Cruiser was a bad joke.

I’d like to know what the rest of the story is.

…why Harry Stonecipher was really fired.

He wasn’t popular, particularly with a lot of the former McDonnell Douglas people, and a lot of people think that he’s been doing with Boeing’s aircraft business the same thing that he did with theirs–running it into the ground, with Boeing now second place to Airbus. Certainly the Sonic Cruiser was a bad joke.

I’d like to know what the rest of the story is.

…why Harry Stonecipher was really fired.

He wasn’t popular, particularly with a lot of the former McDonnell Douglas people, and a lot of people think that he’s been doing with Boeing’s aircraft business the same thing that he did with theirs–running it into the ground, with Boeing now second place to Airbus. Certainly the Sonic Cruiser was a bad joke.

I’d like to know what the rest of the story is.

A genius at English, that is–not a genius who is English.

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 77% Expert!

Compared to users who took the test and are and [sic] in your age group:

* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.

Hmmm…

Unfortunately it doesn’t tell me what my score actually was. And I guess that if I were a little older, I’d have more competition.

Today is the sixty-fifth anniversary of Stalin’s massacre at Katyn Forest, in which he wiped out much of the officer corps of the Polish military.

Today is the sixty-fifth anniversary of Stalin’s massacre at Katyn Forest, in which he wiped out much of the officer corps of the Polish military.

Today is the sixty-fifth anniversary of Stalin’s massacre at Katyn Forest, in which he wiped out much of the officer corps of the Polish military.