To the five and one-third of you who have been breathlessly awaiting the first all-new installment in the Irrational Histories series: Please exhale. I did mean to have it up today (of course), but I planned badly. I intended to get it done at the Fairwood marathon on Saturday; but I didn’t realize that writing these is, in one important respect, the polar opposite of writing most of my other stuff — it can only be done while surfing the web. (Or possibly in a good library, but that would take too long.)

I did get the bones of the piece wired together this weekend, but now I have to flesh them with facts — or, as we here at the Institute for Applied Chrononautics like to call them, “facts.” I didn’t have time (or “time”) to do that yesterday, so: this evening.

“Showa 20.” Stay tuned.