BLAGOJEVICH UPDATE:

This guy is not leaving anytime soon.

Rod Blagojevich is hanging onto his governorship the way a cat hangs onto the carpet when you try to put it in a kitty caddie. Everyone in the world knows Blag is crooked as elbow macaroni, but he ain’t giving up that sweet free ride known as politics without a fight. We’ve seen politicians caught before, but this guy is more caught than usual. Seriously, the plausible deniability signpost disappeared in his rearview mirror years ago. We keep picturing undercover FBI techs spewing coffee on each other, they’re laughing so hard listening to Rod work it like a three-card monte dealer: “Step right up folks and find the Senate seat. Where could it be? Lay down a little cashola for a chance to play the game.” And now, after being so caught Webster’s is already adding a new entry—caught 1) Rod Blagojevich—he now refuses to resign. Two observations: first, the fucking chutzpah of this guy; second, the fucking pulp of this guy.

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

July 12

1971—Corona Sent to Prison

Mexican-born serial killer Juan Vallejo Corona is convicted of the murders of 25 itinerant laborers. He had stabbed each of them, chopped a cross in the backs of their heads with a machete, and buried them in shallow graves in fruit orchards in Sutter County, California. At the time the crimes were the worst mass murders in U.S. history.

July 11

1960—To Kill a Mockingbird Appears

Harper Lee’s racially charged novel To Kill a Mockingbird is published by J.B. Lippincott & Co. The book is hailed as a classic, becomes an international bestseller, and spawns a movie starring Gregory Peck, but is the only novel Lee would ever publish.

July 11

1962—Nuke Test on Xmas Island

As part of the nuclear tests codenamed Operation Dominic, the United States detonates a one megaton bomb on Australian controlled Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. The island was a location for a series of American and British nuclear tests, and years later lawsuits claiming radiation damage to military personnel were filed, but none were settled in favor in the soldiers.

July 10

1940—The Battle of Britain Begins

The German Air Force, aka the Luftwaffe, attacks shipping convoys off the coast of England, touching off what Prime Minister Winston Churchill describes as The Battle of Britain.

July 9

1948—Paige Takes Mound in the Majors

Satchel Paige, considered at the time the greatest of Negro League pitchers, makes his Major League debut for the Cleveland Indians at the age of 42. His career in the majors is short because of his age, but even so, as time passes, he is recognized by baseball experts as one of the great pitchers of all time.

DON’T RIDE THE WHITE HORSE

Rafael DeSoto painted this excellent cover for David Hulburd's 1954 drug scare novel H Is for Heroin. We also have the original art without text.

BARN GIRLS

Two Spanish language digest novels from Argentine publishers Malinca Debora and Malinca Nueva Pandora.

Argentine publishers Malinca Debora reprinted numerous English language crime thrillers in Spanish. This example uses George Gross art borrowed from U.S. imprint Rainbow Books.

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