Merry Christmas, Mr. Turing

from CNN Alan Turing, code-breaker castrated for homosexuality, receives royal pardon By Jethro Mullen, CNN Castrated code-breaker receives pardon (CNN) — Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for...

Becoming That Second Kind of Christmas

from Letters Of Note America is like that second kind of Christmas In November of 1959, as a shocked American public were hit with the news that a number of their favourite quiz shows had in fact been rigged for some time, author John Steinbeck wrote the following...

Rutlemania Redux

from The New York Times The Rutles Parody the Beatles By MARC SPITZ The Rutles in the film “All You Need Is Cash”: from left, Eric Idle, Ricky Fataar, John Halsey and Neil Innes. There’s long been debate over who can truly claim the title “the Fifth Beatle.” The disc...