On March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers operating in the Son Tinh district of Quang Nai province in South Vietnam went on a "search and destroy" mission, supposedly for elusive Viet Cong guerrillas who had been killing and maiming them.

They found and killed women, children and old men -- up to 500 of them, by some counts.

The slaughter became known as the My Lai massacre.

From the BBC:

Mr Gongadze was openly critical of Ukraine's former regime

A court in Ukraine has sentenced three former police officers to prison for the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

Mykola Protasov was given a sentence of 13 years, while Valeriy Kostenko and Oleksandr Popovych were each handed 12-year terms.

Mr Gongadze's death, in 2000, sparked widespread protests in the Ukraine.

His family said the high-profile trial had failed to bring the masterminds behind the killing to justice.

Thirty-one year-old Mr Gongadze was an outspoken critic of the former regime led by Leonid Kuchma.

He was abducted in September 2000 and his headless body was found two months later buried in a forest.

The killing triggered a political scandal, especially after the emergence of secretly recorded tapes that allegedly implicated Mr Kuchma.

The former president, who was in power until 2004, denies any involvement.

From a Reporters without Borders news release:

Ukraine’s deputy prosecutor-general Mykola Holomsha, said at the start of the month that he was waiting for the results of the expert analysis of the recordings made by former President Leonid Kuchma’s bodyguard, Mykola Melnychenko. As soon as they are known, the court could formally charge “certain persons” with organising Gongadze’s murder, he said.

The 2002 film Comedian follows the post-Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld as he tries to rebuilt a standup comedy routine from scratch.

A parallel plot is the career of Orny Adams, who wants to make the big time. What Adams had to say about the National Post triggered a wry smile (sorry I'm late to this party, but my DVD rental dance card has been filled up for the last five years and change).

He got a front-page story during his appearance at the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival.

During his routine, he trotted the paper out on stage. No one seemed to have read the article -- or the paper.

"Nobody reads this goddam paper? I make it on the front page of my first national paper and nobody reads it?!?!"

He wasn't kidding. "I'm sorry, but this audience sucks," a pouty Adams said afterwards.

"I really thought I could do more with the paper, and I was proud to be in the paper," he said. "But it's too bad nobody reads it."