Interrogatories
It’s False Confession Day! Tell us something really good that you didn’t really do.
You can tell we’re in the lead up to Thanksgiving. What kind of stuffing do you like? Do you prefer it cooked in or outside of the bird?
Do you smoke? If not, did you ever? How hard was it to quit? (this could be a repeat question)
It is also Use Less Stuff Day. If you combine the first two words, you get Useless Stuff Day. Do you have any Useless Stuff to get rid of? What’s keeping you?
Bonus question stolen from Chris Hayes’ show last night: If you were President, who would you give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to?
The Twitter Emitter
The only groups that want to repeal Obamacare are whites and Republicans, or — as the GOP calls them — everyone. http://t.co/ro8lORGbzg
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 20, 2013
When Trey Raydel drops his rap album I hope he calls himself MC White Privilege.
— Shugah (@Shugah) November 20, 2013
Pssst, America? You're actually allowed to do Small Business Saturday on Black Friday.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 20, 2013
Obamacare is Stalin's Waterloo. (did I get that right?)
— Frank Vdl (@fvdlfvdl) November 20, 2013
Paul Ryan: "My proposal will end poverty by eliminating food stamps and Medicaid so the poor will start businesses with money from parents."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 20, 2013
what do you call a sleep walking nun?
a roamin' Catholic.
— Shayera Tangri (@shayera) November 21, 2013
No cats received a Presidential Medal of Freedom today. A travesty.
— The Fucking Cat (@TheFuckingCat) November 21, 2013
I can't be partisan, I have a Republican friend. #Proof #UniteBlue
— GOPathetic (@GOPathetic) November 21, 2013
Rep. Trey Radel isn't a hypocrite for voting to make food stamp recipients take drug tests– he was high and didn't know what he was doing.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 21, 2013
On This Day
In 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d’Arlandes, made the first untethered hot air balloon flight over Paris.
In 1789, with their ratification of the Constitution, North Carolina became the 12th state.
In 1877, Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that would record and play sound.
In 1905, Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, revealing the relationship between energy and mass, was published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This gave us the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc².
In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia became the first female United States Senator.
In 1927, striking coal miners were attacked with machine guns by men who were either the state police dressed in civilian clothes or the security hired by the mine owners. This came to be called the Columbine Mine Massacre. Six strikers were killed, and dozens more were injured.
In 1964, the upper level of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn with Staten Island, opened to vehicular traffic. At that time, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
In 1986, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall began shredding documents that implicated them in the illegal sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
Born on This Day
1694 – Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778) (with a real quote hover)
1724 – Jan Ekels the elder, Dutch painter (d. 1781)
1761 – Dorothea Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)
1821 – Jean-Baptiste Robie, Belgian flower painter (d. 1910)
1883 – Jean Hippolyte Marchand, French painter (d. 1941)
1891 – Karl Hubbuch, German painter (d. 1979)
1898 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
1899 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967)
1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish American author, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1904 – Coleman Hawkins, American musician (d. 1969)
1912 – Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1983)
1922 – María Casares, Spanish-born actress who had a distinguished career in France, starring in such classics as Les Enfants du paradis and Orphée. (d. 1996)
1927 – Joseph Campanella, American actor
1937 – Marlo Thomas, American actress
1940 – Dr. John, American musician
1941 – Juliet Mills, British actress – daughter of Sir John and sister of Hayley, her biggest hit this side of the pond was in The Nanny and the Professor.
1944 – Harold Ramis, American actor/director
1945 – Goldie Hawn, American actress
1960 – Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1968 – Alex James, English bassist (Blur)
1984 – Jena Malone, American actress
Died on This Day
1717 – Jean-Baptiste Santerre, French painter (b. 1658)
1730 – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)
1849 – François-Marius Granet, French painter (b. 1775)
1874 – Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
1907 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
1909 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (b. 1851)
1924 – Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1927 – Laurits Regner Tuxen, Danish painter (b. 1853)
1933 – Frederick Hollyer, English photographer (b. 1837)
1941 – Georges Morren, Belgian Impressionist painter (b. 1868)
1945 – Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889)
1969 – Norman Alfred Lindsay, Australian painter (b. 1879)
1995 – Peter Grant, British rock manager and actor (b. 1935)
1999 – Quentin Crisp, British writer and actor (b. 1908)
2006 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
Today is
False Confession Day
World Hello Day
World Television Day
National Stuffing Day
Gingerbread Day
Beaujolais Nouveau Day
Great American Smokeout
Use Less Stuff Day
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