Recent Strangelove News:
Jack Todd: A week of lowlights for the Habs - Mon, 16 Jan 2012
MONTREAL - It was the week when Alice in Wonderland met Dr. Strangelove. When it seemed we were watching a sketch from Saturday Night Live. When the emerging train wreck once known as the glorious Montreal Canadiens became the California Golden Seals.About the only thing we were missing was Charles O. Finley.And the only way it could have got stranger was if Pierre Gauthier went on Tout le monde ...
This Shot of Slim Pickens Is the Bomb [Past Perfect] - Fri, 10 Feb 2012
# pastperfect I grew up under the shadow of the spectre of nuclear war. In the 1980s, popular culture was rife with the imagery of nuclear annihilation-from The Day After , to Threads , to Smiths songs. But nothing approached Dr. Strangelove . More »
Solar Swan Song: NASA Satellite Witnesses a Comet's Plunge into the Sun - Thu, 19 Jan 2012
As dramatic exits go, it's on par with Major T. J. "King" Kong riding a falling nuclear bomb like a rodeo bull at the end of Dr. Strangelove . A NASA spacecraft has documented a comet's demise as it plunged toward the sun at 600 kilometers per second, broke apart and vaporized inside the solar atmosphere. [More]
QUINN'S CORNER - Not a job to delegate - Wed, 01 Feb 2012
As he ordered a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in the movie, "Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, " Gen. Jack D. Ripper expressed his view of civilian leadership of the military: "Politicians have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist ...
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