President Nixon

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll in Redneck Country

Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York


Ethel Grodzins Romm

He introduced his girlfriend as "my old lady." She was maybe 17. They were both stripped to the waist, lying in a zipped-open sleeping bag, like hundreds, thousands, of couples around them.

A Preposterous Pre-Digital Primer

Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.

Debate -- McCain calls Nuclear Safety Advocates "Extreme Environmentalists"

Steve Parker | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


Steve Parker

McCain made a gaffe (not as bad as when he called Obama "Senator Government"), which got me thinking and worried me greatly.