Interrogatories
Oceans, lakes, or rivers (best bodies of water)?
How long does it take you to get ready to go out?
What is your favorite war movie?
When you die, do you want to be buried or cremated?
How do you make the perfect hamburger (or veggie burger)?
The Twitter Emitter
Libertarian crackers don’t recognize that if it weren’t for the Tennesse Valley Authority, they’d still be pooping in unlit outhouses.
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) May 26, 2013
Jupiter, Venus and Mercury form a triangle low in the western sky tonight, opening a portal for arrival of the Cicada mothership.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 27, 2013
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to tell you “STFU I’m watching the ballgame.”
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) May 27, 2013
Trying to find the part of the Constitution where is says our only duty is to maximize shareholder value.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 27, 2013
Let’s honor our war dead by giving proper benefits to our war living.
— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) May 27, 2013
Enforce the laws already on the books! (Except section 501c4.)
— David Waldman (@KagroX) May 27, 2013
Rand Paul’s 2016 prospects are not helped by the fact people already sick of looking at him in 2013
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) May 27, 2013
Good things come to those who pay for them.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) May 27, 2013
My father spent the 1940’s crawling thru Europe on his belly. He wasn’t in the war, he just had a horrible travel agent.
— Elayne Boosler (@ElayneBoosler) May 27, 2013
The Big Book of Spiteful Legislation.
— Andrew Gatto (@AndrewGatto) May 27, 2013
Letting politicians who hate government run the government is like letting Michael Vick run PETA.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 27, 2013
On This Day
In 1588, the Spanish Armada took off from Lisbon for England, where it met with eventual defeat.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the nefarious Indian Removal Act.
In 1892, the Sierra Club was founded by conservationist John Muir.
In 1934, the Dionne Quintuplets were born, the first known to have survived infancy.
In 1957, the National League OK’d the moves of the Brooklyn Dodgers to L.A. and the New York Giants to San Francisco.
In 1996, President Clinton’s ex-business partners in the Whitewater deal were convicted of fraud. 3 separate inquiries found no wrongdoing by the Clintons, but Republicans continued frothing at the mouth over the affair (as they are wont to do).
Born on This Day
1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
1759 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
1782 – Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk, Dutch painter (d. 1810)
1810 – Alexandre Calame, Swiss painter (d. 1864)
1818 – P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate general (d. 1893)
1840 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter (d. 1884)
1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and industrialist, developed the blow torch (d. 1939)
1888 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
1908 – Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
1910 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (d. 1975)
1917 – Papa John Creach, American violinist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and The Dinosaurs) (d. 1994)
1931 – Carroll Baker, American actress
1936 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist, wife of Malcolm X (d. 1997)
1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1944 – Rudy Giuliani, political punchline
1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1945 – John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1947 – Leland Sklar, American singer-songwriter, bassist, and composer (The Section and Era)
1949 – Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1953 – Arto Lindsay, American musician (DNA, The Golden Palominos, The Lounge Lizards, and Ambitious Lovers)
1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Magazine, Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1960 – Mark Sanford, American adulterer and walker of the Appalachian Trail, 115th Governor of South Carolina and now Congressman (because IOKIYAR)
1962 – Roland Gift, English singer and actor (Fine Young Cannibals)
1963 – Gavin Harrison, English drummer (Porcupine Tree and many more)
1965 – Chris Ballew, American singer and bassist (The Presidents of the United States of America)
1970 – Jimi Goodwin, English singer-songwriter and musician (Doves and Sub Sub)
1970 – Bobby Bognar, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Piper Downs)
1971 – Marco Rubio, clueless individual
1977 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck, even more clueless individual
Died on This Day
1748 – Ignaz (or Ignazio) Stern, German painter (b. 1679)
1749 – Pierre Subleyras, French painter (b. 1699)
1755 – Franz Xaver Hendrik Verbeeck, Flemish painter (b. 1686)
1843 – Noah Webster, American writer and lexicographer (b. 1758)
1849 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1921 – Conrad Kiesel, German painter (b. 1846)
1927 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1948 – Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer and one of the famous Mitford sisters (b. 1914)
1968 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch painter (b. 1877)
1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1948)
2003 – Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
2007 – Jörg Immendorff, German painter (b. 1945)
2008 – Beryl Cook, English painter (b. 1926)
2010 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
Today is
Sierra Club Day
Amnesty International Day
National Brisket Day
National Hamburger Day
17 comments