Today in History (1862) - The U.S. government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. On the same day in 1865, the Confederate Congress voted to enlist 300,000 black troops, granting them freedom with the consent of their owners. Lee surrendered a few weeks later.
So . . . will I get linked by Instapundit if I write something like:
When selecting your broadcast station for tonight's debates, beware that CBS has planned to graft in a cybergenic Bush-look-alike programmed with a vocabulary of six to answer questions in lieu of the real one. Har har, CBS is, like, sooo unreliable.