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Q What’s going on in the housing market, is it a correction or a crisis, in your view? Can you assess that?
THE PRESIDENT: Yesterday I did comment upon that, that there was a — I talked about the different scenarios that I had been briefed on about whether or not there would be a precipitous […]

WAR ON ZOMBIES

Bush Sees New Threat (YouTube, via TMN)

10 AUGUST

1519: Magellan’s five ships leave Seville to attempt to circumnavigate the Earth

1990: The Magellan spacecraft starts mapping Venus

2002: Séamas Cain’s Seaturtles is performed at dawn by Mary Roe O’Neill at the sea-level megalith of Creevykeel in Sligo

9 AUGUST

1842: Herman Melville escapes from the Taipi valley cannibals (?)

1914: Tove Jansson is born

1922: Philip Larkin is born

1930: Betty Boop makes her first appearance, in Dizzy Dishes [vid]

1945: The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki

1969: Sharon Tate and four other people are found murdered at Tate’s residence in Los Angeles

1971: Northern Ireland activates […]

8 AUGUST

1809: Ueda Akinari dies [Ugetsu] [English]

1879: Emiliano Zapata is born

1907: Benny Carter is born [symphonyinriffs]

1974: President Nixon announces that he will resign from office

1975: Cannonball Adderley dies

7 AUGUST

1876: Mata Hari is born [photos]

1903: Louis Leakey is born

1934: The US Court of Appeals upholds Judge Woolsey’s earlier ruling allowing James Joyce’s Ulysses into the country

1957: Oliver Hardy dies

1958: Arthur Miller is cleared of contempt of Congress

1964: The US Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with […]

6 AUGUST

1809: Alfred Tennyson is born

1911: Lucille Ball is born [vid: vitameatavegemin]

1938: Paul Bartel is born

1943: Jon Postel is born

1945: The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima [poem]

1961: Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov spends a day in space

1970: Yippies invade Disneyland

1988: Tompkins Square Park Police Riot

1991: “I promised to post a short summary of the […]

MORE LIKE SOCIAL IRRITABILITY

Your score:
16(fear) + 16(avoidance = 32
You do not suffer from social anxiety.

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (via ethan_t_hein)

OH, YEAH …

A Central Illinois Irish music update for the month of August is here. If you’re in Chambana and have nothing better to do this evening, I’m hosting the trad session at Mike & Molly’s starting at fiveish. My hands are really sore, and they’re about to be more so, but I think I can manage […]

5 AUGUST

1833: Chicago is incorporated as a town

1850: Guy de Maupassant is born [works]

1962: Marilyn Monroe is found dead

1964: US aircraft bomb North Vietnam, “justified” by the Tonkin Gulf Lie