Akkam’s Razor

It’s a damn shame, the things that we’re left to wonder.  Can you safely assume there was no shooter on the grassy knoll?  That ‘DC Madam’ Palfrey committed suicide?  Or that alleged anthrax-attacker Bruce Ivins worked alone?  Or that the heroic passengers of Flight 93 brought the plane down, and not a US missile?

Did you see this story in the Post (and reprinted today on page 2 in the Inky)?

Quickly, it's a horrible thing for the nation to lose a president, and condolences are especially due to the Ford family.  But the historians who are putting Ford on a pedastal for "sacrificing his political career" by pardoning Richard Nixon so the country could move forward is disingenuous and shamefull.

There was a funny meme running around the internets a couple of weeks ago, attributing the troubles we're currently facing with Woodrow Wilson's signing of the Treaty of Versailles (meaning that the treaty was the start of a variety of incidents that culminate in the here and now).