Every morning I get an email from The History Channel with "this day in history" bullet points. A couple stood out today:
- Two hundred years ago today, the American whaler Essex lost a fight with an 80-ton sperm whale. Only five of the twenty crew survived.
- On this day in 1945, 75 years ago, the Nuremberg trials began.
- In 1985, 35 years ago, Microsoft Windows came out.
And now, the sanity. Via author John Scalzi, (conservative) attorney T. Greg Doucette explains why the president will leave office on January 20th no matter what chicanery he tries to steal the election: