Monthly Archive: February 2018

Photo of Kim Jong-un

‘Josef Pwag’ is My New Favorite Screen Name

Meet Josef Pwag — the top secret phony-passport pseudonym of Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Josef Pwag, really? So says Reuters, reporting that Kim and his father, Kim Jong-il, had the fake passports …..

People Magazine cover with a photo of Tonya Harding skating and the headline "TONYA'S WORLD." (Also a small photo of Oprah on her 40th birthday!)

Tonya Harding Was Guilty

Was Tonya Harding innocent?  Was she just the victim of a terrible boyfriend and his nutty henchmen, as the movie I, Tonya suggests? Norm Frink, who prosecuted the case in 1994, …..

Anne Frank looks up from her school desk and smiles, in a dark dress with a white collar

Anne Frank May Not Have Been Betrayed After All

For years the question has been: Who betrayed Anne Frank? Nobody has ever known for sure how the Frank family was discovered in their upstairs hideaway in Amsterdam in August of …..

Barack Obama looks thoughtful as he sits in front of a riot of green leaves.

The Obama Official Portraits: One Strange, One Wonderful

The new portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were unveiled today at the National Gallery. Here they are:   Barack Obama’s portrait is by Kehinde Wiley, and …..

Photo of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, behing held up by a handler for cameras

Groundhog Prediction 2018: Six More Weeks of Winter

Punxsutawney Phil, that Greta Garbo-like recluse, has made his prediction for 2018. The news is bad: Punxsutawney Phil appeared just long enough to see his shadow, and that means six …..