Interrogatories
What’s your favorite kind of donut or other deep fried pastry goodie?
What’s your favorite bagel, and what do you top it with?
Have you been the subject of a surprise party? Ever surprise someone else?
Describe the sound your doorbell makes. Do you always answer the door?
The Twitter Emitter
The fact that men rape women, men rape men, women rape men, and women rape women proves that we don't have a rape problem. Got it.
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) November 4, 2013
Apparently, this is the last week you can tell all your friends you were into Twitter before they went corporate.
— pastordan (@pastordan) November 4, 2013
Great job by the Senate. Unfortunately, the GOP House is the ENDA the line for any bills on equality.
— Dante Apollo Atkins (@DanteAtkins) November 4, 2013
somewhere in hell bin Laden is still chuckling over his jar of honey. "First you get the honey," he hisses. "Then you get the power."
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) November 4, 2013
PLEASE NOTE: If you use your religion to deny people rights, opportunity and medical care, that's not "religious freedom."
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 4, 2013
If these big corporations believe we don't need government, I don't see why they employ all those lobbyists.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) November 5, 2013
When the Wampanoag fed the Pilgrims on Thanksgiving they didn't realize they'd just begun Socialism for Illegal Immigrants.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 5, 2013
Did Rand Paul also cut and paste the thing on his head? #WentThere #CrankySueMe
— GottaLaff (@GottaLaff) November 5, 2013
People need to lay off Rand Paul. His "I have been to the mountaintop" speech is one of the greatest things I've ever heard.
— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) November 5, 2013
You can tell @SenRandPaul has no fear of being called a plagiarist by the way his websites are being scrubbed of content.
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) November 5, 2013
Rand Paul apparently thought it was "Atlas Cribbed."
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 5, 2013
There’s an election in Virginia today:
Ken Cuccinelli is proving that women can still vote.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 28, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli and Christine O'Donnell would be a dream ticket for people who don't want their genitals touched ever, even by themselves
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 29, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli: "I'm the only candidate who cares enough to make sure your younger neighbors aren't committing oral and anal sex. "
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 5, 2013
On This Day
In 1831, Nat Turner, slave rebellion leader, was tried and convicted, then sentenced to death.
In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted (though illegal at the time), for which she was fined $100, a considerable sum in those days.
In 1916, in Everett, Washington, there was a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police and their vigilante supporters (aka “citizen deputies”). Two of the “citizen deputies” were killed, but accidentally by their own side. The casualties on the other side are disputed, with claims ranging from zero to 12 deaths, but at least 20 injuries.
In 2006, Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants were found guilty and sentenced to die in the trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi’as.
In 2009, US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a shooting spree at Ft. Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29.
In 2011, Bank Transfer Day, or Move Your Money Day resulted in over 2.2 million Americans moving their accounts to credit unions or small local banks to show the large greedy banks that small customers are a force to be reckoned with.
Born on This Day
1619 – Philip de Koninck, Dutch landscape painter (d. 1688)
1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
1751 – Friedrich-Heinrich Füger, Austrian painter (d. 1818)
1779 – Washington Allston, American painter (d. 1843)
1846 – Gustavo Simoni, Italian orientalist painter (d. 1926)
1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
1911 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1914 – Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
1922 – Violet Barclay, American comic book artist (d. 2010)
1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
1946 – Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973)
1946 – Alton S. Tobey, U.S. painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
1947 – Peter Noone, English musician (Herman’s Hermits)
1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and musician (A Flock of Seagulls)
1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
1963 – Tatum O’Neal, American actress and author
1968 – Sam Rockwell, American film actor
1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English musician, songwriter, and composer (Radiohead)
1976 – Jeff Klein, American musician
Died on This Day
1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
1559 – Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476)
1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1807 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (b. 1741)
1868 – Franz Steinfeld, Austrian landscape painter (b. 1787)
1872 – Thomas Sully, English-born U.S. portrait painter (b. 1783)
1906 – Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (b. 1847)
1928 – Arnold Rothstein, American businessman and gambler (b. 1882)
1933 – Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1942 – George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
1946 – Joseph Stella, U.S. futurist painter (b. 1877)
1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
1956 – Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (b. 1880)
1975 – Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1982 – Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908)
1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
2005 – Link Wray, influential American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and singer (b. 1929)
2012 – Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
Today is
National Doughnut Day (as opposed to National Donut Day)
Gunpowder Day/Guy Fawkes Day
American Football Day
Bonus pic (was the Tipple Jar in the other place)
Artwork by the birthdate and death-dateless Ernest Louis Lessieux (1848-1925)
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