Archive for January 13th, 2012

January 13, 1982.

Friday, January 13th, 2012

It was a Wednesday, not a Friday.

Anyway, before the day was out, I did want to mention the WP package on the 30th anniversary of the crash of Air Florida Flight 90.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, call your office, please.

Friday, January 13th, 2012

North Korea said on Thursday that it would place the body of Kim Jong-il on permanent display in a Pyongyang mausoleum and install his statues, portraits and memorial towers across the country.

Oh, wait, it looks like you’ve already called in:

Until Thursday, North Korea had not clarified what it would do with the body, although news reports in Russia and South Korea have said that a team of Russian specialists in charge of maintaining Lenin’s embalmed body was flown to Pyongyang, the North’s capital.

I wonder how you get a job as a Lenin maintainer. Is there an academic course of study you can follow? Is it a two-year or four-year program?