On July 4th, 1776, King George III wrote the following in his diary:

"Nothing important happened today."

That ironic and little known historical 'fact' is courtesy of the X-Files, proof that television isn't all bad and even Fox can get it right on occasion.

Now George III wrote that not knowing America had just declared independence. Such were the days before global communications.

However, he'd have written much the same even with today's technology.

And the point of this?

The quote represents the theme of this Latrine article.

As mentioned in the editorial, this article was a late inclusion. I wasn't going to write one but then, partly for more content, partly for the writing excercise but mostly to play with some new Photoshop brushes, I wrote this.

A brief look at the saner and sillier things in the news showing us that nothing important happened today.