Interrogatories
Iced tea – sweetened or unsweetened?
What are your favorite musical genres?
Have you ever solved Rubik’s Cube?
Patios or decks?
Ocean, lake, or swimming pool?
The Twitter Emitter
“Something I direly warned about came true! Thank God I have a record of racist newsletters, pandemic paranoia and goldbuggery.” – Ron Paul
— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) June 6, 2013
This is basically like Watergate except totally legal and not like Watergate at all
— Ben Jacobs (@benhjacobs) June 6, 2013
@joshtpm can i synch my govt. account with facebook and twitter?
— Marc Nichol (@marcnichol10) June 6, 2013
However you feel about privacy & security, knowing a Benjamin Franklin quote doesn’t make you an expert on how the government balances them.
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 6, 2013
On the lighter side, the NSA now boasts the largest repository of Rick Astley videos in recorded history. #p2
— Devin (@devbost) June 6, 2013
GOP: “The Patriot Act is unconstitutional. President Obama should not have tricked every Republican Senator into voting for it in 2001.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) June 7, 2013
Dog food commercials always brag about their great flavor. My dog licks its own ass and eats cat poop. I’m not paying extra for beef flavor.
— Rabbi Crut (@solentgrn) June 9, 2013
I feel that by not having a town called Kim Jong, Illinois, we are just leaving comedy opportunities on the table.
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) June 9, 2013
Why does the NSA need a fancy program to intercept conservative emails? Don’t they have grandparents who forward them?
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) June 9, 2013
Moses wandered the desert for a shorter time and with more direction than this “Path To Citizenship” proposal has. #uppers
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) June 9, 2013
On This Day
In 1829, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge held the first of their famous boat races.
In 1854, the graduation ceremony for the first class at the United States Naval Academy in Bethesday was held.
In 1935, Robert Smith and Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous.
In 1967, the Six Day War came to an end as a cease fire was agreed upon between Syria and Israel.
In 1985, Klaus von Bulow was acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny.
In 2007, the last episode of The Sopranos was aired, leading to the unfortunate revival of “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey. ;-P
In 2009, white supremacist James von Brunn shot up the Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., killing the security guard. He did not live long enough to stand trial.
Born on This Day
1557 – Leandro Bassano, Italian Mannerist painter (d. 1622)
1630 – Willem van Bemmel, Dutch painter (d. 1708)
1657 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1721)
1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart, English son of James II of England (d. 1766)
1787 – George Henry Harlow, English painter (d. 1819)
1798 – Frederick Richard Lee, British landscape painter (d. 1879)
1819 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1825 – Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (d. 1864)
1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
1844 – Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1914)
1845 – Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, French painter (d. 1902)
1853 – Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore, British painter (d. 1901)
1857 – Edward Henry Potthast, American Impressionist painter (d. 1927)
1859 – James Guthrie, Scottish painter (d. 1930)
1862 – Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1878 – Tranquillo Cremona, Italian painter (b. 1837)
1880 – André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
1889 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
1907 – Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1910 – Howlin’ Wolf, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1976)
1911 – Terence Rattigan, English playwright (d. 1977)
1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek-English husband of Elizabeth II
1922 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
1926 – June Haver, American actress (d. 2005)
1928 – Maurice Sendak, American author (d. 2012)
1931 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor (The First Edition)
1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
1953 – John Edwards, American politician and lawyer and huge disappointment
1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American lawyer and politician, 54th Governor of New York and another disappointment
1961 – Kelley Deal, American singer and musician (The Breeders)
1961 – Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician (Pixies, The Breeders, and The Amps)
1964 – Vincent Pérez, Swiss-French actor and director
1965 – Joey Santiago, Filipino-American singer, musician, and composer (Pixies and The Martinis)
1967 – Emma Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lush and Sing-Sing)
1967 – John Yoo, American torture enabler
1970 – Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter (Soul Coughing)
1971 – Joel “JoJo” Hailey, American singer (K-Ci & JoJo and Jodeci)
1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, 55th Governor of Louisiana, presidential wannabe (and never will be)
1978 – Shane West, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Germs)
1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
Died on This Day
323 BC-Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1698 – Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch painter (b. 1638)
1909 – Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1924 – Henry John Yeend King, English genre painter (b. 1855)
1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish-Catalan architect, designed the Park Güell (b. 1852)
1940 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and activist, founded the Black Star Line (b. 1887)
1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
1971 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
1973 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1873)
2002 – John Gotti, American mobster (b. 1940)
2004 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (b. 1930)
2012 – Georges Mathieu, French painter (b. 1921)
Today is
Herbs & Spice Day
National Iced Tea Day
National Black Cow Day (aka Root Beer Float)
Mourn for Your Money Day
Nursing Assistants Day
Ball Point Pen Day
20 comments