Pretty amazing, right? Inside the issue: an excellent dishy gossip report from Hollywood headlined Moses and the Money Changers (yikes) and this actually very spectacular report on Ray Ryan's Mount Kenya Safari Club. (Ray Ryan, you will remember, blew up in a pretty spectacular unsolved car-bombing in 1977.) Simpler times! Sort of!

Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell on this fine day in November of 1989? I remember it vividly. That was the year they were playing "Nothing Compares 2 U" all the time. I lived in a one bedroom apartment two blocks off Hollywood Boulevard, in the city of golden dreams, with a nice young former waitress named Dawn, who right around that time received a free roundtrip ticket to Hawaii from the apartment building manager/hooker who lived with his wife and child and sometimes his male lover across the courtyard. READ MORE

In our fast-paced society we are always keeping one eye on the present and the other on the future, so it's important to occasionally step back and look at where we've been. It's particularly appropriate to do so today, which marks a milestone that changed the way we live forever. That's right, on this day back in 2003 Amanda and Dave became "the first couple in the American editions of 'Big Brother' to publicly engage in sex on the program." I vividly remember the President's emergency address to a joint session of Congress immediately after, and the feelings of uncertainty that bound us, however briefly, together as a nation. We've grown a lot since then: wiser, more resilient, and perhaps a bit more wistful, but there's no denying the significance of this very, very historic day. It's hard to believe we were ever that young.

The Wall Street Journal, in 1930, in a front-page editorial: "This is America. Piffling talkers would turn back the calendar to the nineties and destroy the economic progress of thirty years. Vicious rumors spread for selfish purposes; flippant predictions of a five-year slump in business; wholesale demands for the cutting of wages are unworthy of American intelligence. Credit is super-abundant. Business is no worse than three months ago. Twelve months of declining volume is behind us. Many adjustments have been all but completed. Engineering and marketing brains are as fertile as ever. Problems there have always been. To proclaim their insurmountability is childish." LOL, 1930! "Flippant predictions"!

From the Penny Illustrated Paper, deep in the archives of The British Library's newspaper collection, we learn that not much has changed in 100 years: angry suffragettes and ill-tempered husbands! READ MORE