Monday, July 19, 2010

1919: Al Capone


Student Al Capone is bitten by a syphilitic spider. Young Al uses the power of VD and organized crime to create a criminal empire that reigns in Chicago for decades.

Capone eventually learns too late that with great power there must also come chancres and burning discharge.

1948

1841: William Henry Harrison


William Henry Harrison poses for official portrait four months after leaving office.

1968: Walter Cronkite Denounces the Kree-Skrull War

1972: Nixon Goes on Rampage


Celebrating after his overwhelming electoral victory, President Nixon goes on a scotch- and Dexedrine-fueled rampage against Greenpeace activists in the Northern Atlantic, unwittingly letting loose the cause of his later downfall.