The shot that was heard around the world. How do we know about it? This was a cool article (My mom would have pressed the wrong button on the tape recorder, I promise): When I was a little boy, my dad and I would sit on the floor next to his old reel-to-reel tape deck, taking turns talking into it and playing our voices back — the same reel-to-reel he unwittingly used to gain his 15 minutes of fame. It was October 3, 1951, when Larry Goldberg, a 26-year-old travel agent living with his parents in Brooklyn, set up the deck
Like a bad penny, he just keeps showing up. Isn’t his 15 minutes of fame over yet? From TP: On Wednesday, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher said that if he were in Congress, he would “probably be in jail” because he’d be charged with “slapping some member.” He added, “And that’s not [bull] either.” ThinkProgress asked Joe at CPAC yesterday which members he would most like to slap. “Pretty much anybody that’s stood there and said anything bad about our troops, pretty much anybody who sat there and talked treasonous talk about America,” Joe said. He then implied that some members of
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