Happy Friday, Bombadeiros! How’s it hangin’?
My knees have already mostly recovered from my fall. I have a policy – if nothing pops or creaks, keep it moving. I kept moving after tripping, and my knees never got swollen and never stiffened up. I do workers’ comp for a living, and it seems to me the ones who suffer the longest are the ones who instantly go sedentary when they get injured. My wrist has improved range of motion, but I still need the brace I picked up yesterday (I had one at home, but the color was soooooo butt-ugly that I had to find an alternative).
Interrogatories
Let’s talk about ever-changing standards of beauty. Picking from any period in history, you just have to have seen pictures of the person or persons in question, who is the most beautiful woman you can think of, in your opinion? You don’t have to narrow it down to one if you can’t. How about the most beautiful/handsome man? What is your favorite number? Do you need a dark room to fall asleep in, or does it not matter? Are you an easy sleeper or do you suffer from insomnia? Do you prefer nights or mornings?
The Twitter Emitter
Yo Rand Paul, if you are against executing Americans without a fair trial, the best place to complain would be Rick Perry’s office.
— John (@linnyitssn) March 7, 2013
If President Obama has the authority to use drones, what’s to stop him from using them to make restaurants integrate?
— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) March 7, 2013
Plain black t-shirt: I’m ready to go out into the world. Exact same shirt in white: I’m going outside in my underwear.
— John Moe (@johnmoe) March 7, 2013
Anti-drone lefties don’t be fooled. Tea People didn’t care when 100.000s died in Iraq, they don’t care now. It’s just blaming the black guy.
— John (@linnyitssn) March 7, 2013
Maybe now Rand Paul will have sympathy for people who stand 13 hours EVERY DAY making a tiny, tiny fraction of what he earns
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 7, 2013
At least some libs have been consistent about limited executive power, cons are just full of it.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 7, 2013
The best argument against capitalism is Joe Theismann being paid to talk about his prostate.
— Mark Ennis (@Mengus22) March 7, 2013
Don’t do it! Don’t give in. There are people who love you. Don’t throw your life away by reading internet comments.
— Don’t Read Comments (@AvoidComments) March 7, 2013
Designing a new work-outfit for myself.Must be chic, wick away sweat, and protect against gamma radiation.Suggestions appreciated.
— Mark Leyner (@LeynerMark) March 7, 2013
Rand Paul ordered an intern to fetch his Aqua Buddha mobile urinal, but the poor kid couldn’t find it among the Storm Front memorabilia.
— Justice Putnam (@justiceputnam) March 8, 2013
On This Day
In 1618, Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
In 1782, ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity were massacred by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other tribes.
In 1817, the New York Stock Exchange was founded.
In 1917, the Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
In 1920, the Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, was established.
In 1965, the United States landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam.
In 1971, Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali by decision at Madison Square Garden in New York in the first of three bouts between the heavyweights.
In 1974, the first radio episode of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
In 2008, President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods on suspected terrorists.
Born on This Day
1746 – André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
1783 – Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
1799 – Simon Cameron, 26th U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)
1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1935)
1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)
1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)
1897 – Damerla Rama Rao, Indian artist, (d. 1925)
1897 – Margot Bryant, British actress, (d. 1988)
1892 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
and…
1936 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress
1936 – Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)
1937 – Richard Farina, American folksinger (d. 1966)
1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
1945 – Micky Dolenz, American musician, singer, songwriter, actor. (The Monkees)
1946 – Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles and Poco)
1947 – Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)
1952 – George Felix Allen, American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia, ex-Senator, owner of the “macaca moment.”
1958 – Gary Numan, British singer (Tubeway Army)
1959 – Aidan Quinn, American actor
1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress (Salt-n-Pepa)
1968 – Shawn Mullins, American singer/songwriter
1976 – Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass, The Jennifers, and The Hotrats)
1979 – Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
1979 – Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)
Died on This Day
1144 – Pope Celestine II
1702 – William III of England (b. 1650)
1702 – Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
1855 – William Poole, American criminal, member of New York City’s Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
1872 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
1874 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
1971 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
1973 – Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
1993 – Billy Eckstine, American singer (b. 1914)
1999 – Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
1999 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2003 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2003 – Karen Morley, American actress and McCarthy blacklist victim (b. 1909)
2011 – Mike Starr, American Musician (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun and Days of the New) (b. 1966)
2012 – Leslie Cochran, American peace activist (b.1951)
Today is
National Peanut Cluster Day
Farmer’s Day
International Working Women’s Day
Be Nasty Day
Middle Name Pride Day
National Proof Reading Day
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