Pardon me, please: President Obama, continuing a tradition started by President George H.W. Bush, pardoned two turkeys, “Honest” and “Abe,” who will be sent to a Virginia farm to live.
Bush started the tradition but in his new book credits President Ford’s pardon of President Nixon as his inspiration.
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The naked and the sled: A month after Playboy announced it would stop running photos of naked women in its magazine, a snowboard maker in Vermont says it plans to use images of vintage Playboy centerfolds on its boards.
OK, freedom of expression and all that, but we’d like to see the statistics on how often centerfold board owners are involved in accidents where “the tree came out of nowhere, brah.”
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1789, President George Washington proclaimed a day of thanksgiving in observation of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
George carved the turkey. James Madison brought the green bean casserole. Alexander Hamilton brought the rolls. And Benjamin Franklin brought a bottle of wine. But when Martha could find nothing in the Constitution giving women the right to vote, she left the dishes in the sink, took the wine and went drinking with the other wives.
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