The Declaration of Indepdence

Events leading up to Revolutionary War..

The unlikely victory..



KOFI ANNAN, THE UNLIKELY SCHMUCK OF THE WEEK



Madonna may have thought London was "fucking ready" but the BBC was not..

The World Rocked: LIVE 8 now history as history made...

The 'best concert ever'

The Geldof 'armada' fails..

Kenyan says Live 8 portrays Africa as 'beggar continent'

How good intentions 'go bad' in Africa..

Blog: Why I didn't watch Live 8

Bush the 'activist' on Africa..

...there was no escape...

Anger: MTV cuts off historic Pink Floyd appearance...

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Photo wire..

News wire..

AP/AFP wire..

New world record set at LIVE 8: 26.4 million people around the world sent text messages today...



Brutal heat in Baghdad..

Temp forecast..

FIREWORKS ON EARTH--AND IN SPACE: Mission accomplished! Probe hits comet!


Schmucks, I thought this would be the end of us...you know NASA's track record with space missions! But they pulled it of...the NASA made rocket slammed into a comet last night around 1:57 a.m. ET...fireworks were taking place on earth while space above us exploded with an array of lights...The comet the size of Manhattan has been penetrated by the rocket...NASA will now study, with information they find, the way Earth was formed millions of years ago...
But you..know..I was thinking. Maybe we didn't have to blow up a freaking comet to do it! (Thank God it worked, though)

A conspiratorial friend of mine said it was on a death track to Earth, and this was a secret covert way of getting it off track so it would not hurt us...I don't know if I buy into that one...I think we've all been watching too many movies.

MORE: AP/AFP news wire..
Photo wire..

...NASA photo of actual 'deep impact' collision and an artist's thoughts on how it happened...

And perhaps finally it's just a lesson in how far we've come...On the original Independence Day in 1776, what founding father would have known we would one day build a rocket in a government administration and set it loose to hit into a comet causing a burst of fireworks in space. Not a one. That's who. God Bless America.