Interrogatories
Those of you who are married – church or civil? Did you spend a lot of money or go frugal?
Did you go to your prom? Do you still know your date from that night?
Have you ever been on TV? If so, do tell.
What is better, sunrise or sunset?
How long can you hold a grudge?
The Twitter Emitter
I could have been a douchebag. But I decided to read George Orwell instead of Ayn Rand.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) April 25, 2013
If cavemen had Twitter we would still not have fire nyr.kr/11kohzv
— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) April 25, 2013
Just because Tamerlan Tsarnaev listened to Alex Jones’ show, doesn’t make it Alex Jones’ fault. Obviously it’s the Koran’s fault.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) April 24, 2013
That there are no facts whatsoever now that support austerity only makes it more attractive to conservatives.
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) April 24, 2013
Rhode Island has passed marriage equality! What a divine act of Providence.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 24, 2013
My Laptop is so old I just caught it watching ‘The O’Reilly Factor.’
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 24, 2013
I’ll never forget the day Donald Trump tracked down Jon Stewart’s Jewish certificate.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) April 24, 2013
I mean, who needs Chechen terrorists when you have the Texas Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) April 24, 2013
We should make up a whole new minority just to watch how fast the GOP hates them.
— Ethan Peretz (@MperiousRex) April 24, 2013
If they sold guns at polling places would you still need an ID? – #LibCrib
— J R Levesque (@Enernoj) April 24, 2013
On This Day
In 1859, British and French engineers broke ground for the Suez Canal.
In 1898, the U.S. declared war on Spain.
In 1901, New York became the first state to require cars to have license plates.
In 1944, the United Negro College Fund was incorporated.
In 1953, Francis Crick and James D. Watson published “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid,” which described the double helix structure of DNA.
In 1960, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
In 1983, Yuri Andropov invited American schoolgirl Samantha Smith to visit the Soviet Union after he read her letter expressing fears about nuclear war.
Born on This Day
1287 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (d. 1330)
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English military and politician (d. 1658)
1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral (d. 1786)
1775 – Charlotte of Spain (d. 1830)
1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
1824 – Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, French painter (d. 1888)
1826 – Jean-Baptiste Huysmans, Belgian artist (d. 1906)
1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1867 – August Eiebakke, Norwegian painter (d. 1938)
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and developed Marconi’s law, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1887 – Gösta Sandels, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
1913 – Earl Bostic, American jazz musician (d. 1965)
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
1923 – Albert King, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (d. 1992)
1928 – Vassar Clements, American musician (Old and in the Way) (d. 2005)
1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
1945 – Stu Cook, American singer and musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival, Southern Pacific, and Creedence Clearwater Revisited)
1946 – Talia Shire, American actress
1949 – Michael Brown, American musician and songwriter (The Left Banke and Stories)
1955 – Zev Siegl, American businessman, co-founded Starbucks
1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor, director, and comedian
1964 – Andy Bell, English singer-songwriter and DJ (Erasure)
1965 – Eric Avery, American musician and songwriter (Jane’s Addiction, Deconstruction, and Polar Bear)
1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
1970 – Jason Lee, American actor
Died on This Day
1077 – Géza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
1566 – Diane de Poitiers, French noblewoman, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
1655 – Giovanni Andrea Donducci, aka “il Mastelletta”, Italian painter (b. 1575)
1675 – Claude Lefèbvre, French painter, (b. 1632)
1690 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
1800 – William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
1870 – Daniel Maclise, Irish painter (b. 1806)
1892 – William Bradford, U.S. painter and photographer (b. 1823)
1898 – Benjamin Vautier the elder, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1829)
1931 – Abraham Mintchine, Ukrainian painter (b. 1898)
1932 – Albert Gabriel Rigolot, French painter (b. 1862)
1972 – George Sanders, English actor (b. 1906)
1973 – Olga Grey, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1896)
1988 – Clifford D. Simak, American science fiction writer (d. 1988)
1988 – Valerie Solanas, American writer, attempted assassin of Andy Warhol (b. 1936)
1990 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist and actor (b. 1923)
1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
1996 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer, best known for his iconic movie posters (b. 1920) (Man With the Golden Arm, West Side Story, Vertigo)
2002 – Lisa Lopes, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC) (b. 1971)
2006 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916)
2009 – Bea Arthur, American comedienne, actress, and singer (b. 1922)
2010 – Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne (b. 1935)
Today is
DNA Day
Malaria Awareness Day
Red Hat Society Day
National Zucchini Bread Day (a little early, I think)
World Penguin Day
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