On this day in 1970 Led Zeppelin won 'best group' in the Melody Maker readers Poll -- the first time in eight years that The Beatles hadn't won 'best group.'

The Burned Over District has your daily cartoon:

Scalzi! The Unrecalled Governor.

At Stonekettle, the day began in the usual fashion, with perpetually enraged morons shouting for blood.

Attention space nerds! Next thing you'll be telling me is that there were huge volcanoes on Mars...