Interrogatories
It’s National Pie Day, who would you like to see get a pie in the face?
What famous person that you should like (or all your friends like) rubs you the wrong way for no good (or very superficial) reason?
How are your feet? Too big, too little, high arches or flat, easy or hard to fit shoes on? Do you attract foot fetishists?
Do you have any imaginary friends? Did you when you were a child?
The Twitter Emitter
Still trying to understand why someone counting divorce from the time their marriage ended rather than when it was finalized is a scandal.
— Jesse Taylor (@jesseltaylor) January 22, 2014
I'll be plagiarizing all Shia LaBeouf's tweets so I apologize if you see something you wrote.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 22, 2014
In my humble opinion, my opinions are the best.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 23, 2014
You're against abortion AND birth control coverage. Then I'm not going to ask your opinion on chastity belts.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 23, 2014
Calling me pretentious is hardly the ne plus ultra of insults.
— Mr Roger Quimbly (@RogerQuimbly) January 22, 2014
There's actually nothing I can think of about keeping a brain-dead pregnant woman alive as an incubator that comports with "God's plan"
— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 23, 2014
Why send your child to school when we have factories?
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) January 23, 2014
The ancient Egyptians stopped worshiping Cats as Gods over 2500 years ago. Nobody told the cats.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 22, 2014
On This Day
In 1789, Georgetown University was established in what is now present-day Washington, D.C. (but was then part of Maryland).
In 1849, English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
In 1932, New York Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that he was running for President.
In 1941, Charles Lindbergh testified in front of Congress, advocating for a neutrality pact with a man he admired – Adolf Hitler.
In 1950, in Israel, the Knesset decided that Jerusalem, instead of Tel Aviv, would be the capital of Israel.
In 1964, the 24th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, eliminating poll taxes in federal elections. In recent elections, Republicans have sought ways to bring poll taxes and similar voting restrictions back.
In 1977, ABC began airing the TV mini-series “Roots,” based on Alex Haley’s novel. This was a very big thing, kindling an interest in genealogy in all kinds of people, but especially among African-Americans, who previously never dared to hope they might be able to trace their own ancestry back to Africa.
In 2002, Daniel Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was abducted in Pakistan, by terrorists, who demanded the return of prisoners from the Afghan campaign. He never made it home, having been murdered by his kidnapers.
Born on This Day
1574 – Lucas Franchoys the elder, Belgian painter (d. 1643)
1606 – Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter (d. 1681)
1622 – Abraham Diepraam, Dutch painter (d. 1670)
1767 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (d. 1832)
1783 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
1810 – John Rogers Herbert, English painter (d. 1890)
1813 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
1829 – Anton Seitz, German painter (d. 1900)
1832 – Édouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
1881 – Luisa Casati, patron of the arts, muse and fashion icon (d. 1957)
1896 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
1898 – Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
1907 – Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (Quintette du Hot Club de France) (d. 1953)
1919 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
1924 – Frank Lautenberg, American politician
1928 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress
1933 – Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
1935 – Bob Moses, American civil rights activist
1943 – Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
1943 – Gil Gerard, American actor
1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
1948 – Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
1950 – Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) (d. 2008)
1950 – John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
1951 – Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot, captain of US Airways Flight 1549
1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, American politician, 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1953 – Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
1954 – Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots)
1957 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
Died on This Day
1516 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1570 – James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
1578 – Bartolomeo Schedoni, Italian painter (d. 1615)
1612 – Edward Fenner, English judge, famous for involvement in prosecution of witchcraft
1760 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, Italian painter (b. 1698)
1803 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1806 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1810 – John Hoppner, English portrait painter (b. 1758)
1883 – Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1889 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (b. 1823)
1893 – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Belgian painter (b. 1829)
1924 – James Wilson Morrice, Canadian painter (b. 1865)
1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
1933 – Apollinary Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1856)
1943 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
1943 – Richard E. Miller, American impressionist painter (b. 1875)
1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
1947 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b.1867)
1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893)
1957 – Willie Edwards, Murder victim/killed by KKK members (b. 1932)
1973 – Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1976 – Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
1976 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898)
1977 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)
1978 – Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
1978 – Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
1982 – Hope Hampton, American actress (b. 1897)
1989 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (b. 1904)
1990 – Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
1993 – Thomas A Dorsey, known as “the father of black gospel music” (b. 1899)
2003 – Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
2004 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2005 – Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2007 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (b. 1914)
Today is
National Pie Day
National Handwriting Day
Measure Your Feet Day
Women’s Healthy Weight Day
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
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