HNN's Stupid Award page out today

[TreasonousBastard]

A lot of old news, and Annthrax is mentioned, but History News Network is always a fun read. The articles there tend to get start large arguments over whether they are jackbooted rightwingnuts or bootlicking pinko jerks. I guess that means they're doing something right.

http://hnn.us/articles/1311.html

a sampling--

"Det Con Linda Daniels, who is married to a known racist and BNP member who believes the Holocaust was "exaggerated", works in the community safety unit at the police station in Notting Hill, one of the most ethnically diverse areas of London. The unit … investigates "hate crimes", including "racist crime, domestic violence, homophobic crime and hate mail".

"The UK's Telegraph wanted to find out what the British know about the history of their own empire. Not much apparently. A poll of 2,327 adults revealed that only one in three know that Mad King George was on the throne when Americans demanded independence. Only about half know that the United States was once part of the British Empire."

"One of the CIA's deepest and darkest secrets -- a classified report about a plot by the "Ebenezer Scrooge" terrorist group to attack Santa Claus and his reindeer -- has finally been revealed after almost 30 years.

Researchers who recently uncovered the report say the joke memo warning about a potential terror attack on the North Pole, which had been classified "secret" for decades, speaks more about the U.S. government's obsession with keeping information from the public than it does of the black humour of the spies who wrote it."

and a lot more...