Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 8:06 AM by Gene

Today, some con-SER-va-tive high-school broadsheet that calls itself "The Evening Bulletin" though it issues in the morning plastered a picture of the blessed event on its front page, where squibs for the football team would go. How did con-SER-va-tives get to claim this day as their personal property?

And lest we forget, during the Civil War, which we regard as a cross between a romantic novel and a Trekkie convention ("Hey! Are those buttons historically accurate?"), over 600,000 soldiers died, in rankest conditions. Between the war and Lincoln's assassination and the near-conviction of Andrew Johnson, it's a wonder America survived. It did.

Finally, a confession: I'm probably the only person in America who didn't have his TV on back then. Why? I remembered how six years earlier the early-morning plugfests covered the implosion of the Murrah Building after its own awful event. They replayed it 5,000 times and jabbered all the way through. Most of us don't need to be reminded more than once.

And now, to forget -- until the tenth anniversary.