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The Daily F Bomb, Thursday 2/27/14

Interrogatories

What is the first thing you see right now when you look up from your computer?

Do you have any vices you refuse to give up? If so, what?

When was the last time you willingly stayed up all night?

If someone refused to take your wedding pictures because he/she hated something about you and your lifestyle, would you force the issue?

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On This Day

In 1801, The District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

In 1812, poet Lord Byron gave his first speech as a member of the House of Lords, where he defended violence by Luddites against Industrialism in Nottinghamshire.

In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified officially limiting a president to two terms of office. Can’t have any more of those Socialist Roosevelt types!

In 1973, Members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, S.D., the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux people. They remained there until May.

In 1986, the Senate allowed its debates to be televised.

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced that Kuwait was liberated, and the Persian Gulf War was over. He stated that combat operations would be suspended at midnight.

in 1997, divorce was finally legalized in Ireland.

In 1997, in Britain, legislation banning most handguns went into effect.

Born on This Day

272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)

1606 – Laurent de La Hyre, French painter (d. 1656)

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1622 – Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (d. 1654)

1729 – Jean-Hugues Taraval, French painter (d. 1785)

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1741 – Michel Pierre Hubert Descours II, French painter (d. 1814)

1805 – Pharamond Blanchard, French painter (d. 1873)

1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)

1814 – Charles Louis Baugniet, Belgian genre painter (d. 1886)

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1824 – Henri Pierre Picou, French painter (d. 1895)

1831 – Nikolai Ge, Russian painter (d. 1894)

1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928)

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1863 – Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (d. 1923)

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1869 – Alice Hamilton, American doctor and public health advocate (d. 1970)

1886 – Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)

1887 – James Dickson Innes, British painter (d. 1914)

1890 – Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)

1891 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)

1902 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)

1903 – Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)

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1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)

1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)

1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)

1912 – Lawrence Durrell, English writer (d. 1990)

1917 – John Connally, American politician (d. 1993)

1923 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)

1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress

1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d. 2011)

1934 – Ralph Nader, American author, activist, and political figure

1936 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal and pedophile protector

1942 – Jimmy Burns, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1951 – Lee Atwater, evil American political figure (d. 1991)

1951 – Steve Harley, British musician (Cockney Rebel)

1958 – Nancy Spungen, American murder victim (d. 1978)

1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1969 – Brad Vander Ark, American musician (The Verve Pipe)

1971 – “Chilli” Thomas, American singer (TLC)

1980 – Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton

1983 – Kate Mara, American actress

Died on This Day

1834 – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, French Neoclassical painter (b. 1762)

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1868 –  Maximilien de Meuron, Swiss landscape painter (b. 1785)

1892 – Louis Vuitton, French ugly luggage maker (b. 1821)

1902 – Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier (b. 1864)

1926 – Olga Wisinger-Florian, Austrian painter (b. 1844)

1942 – Ernest Rouart, French painter (b. 1874)

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1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)

1966 – Gino Severini, Italian Cubist and Futurist painter (b. 1883)

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1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (The Teenagers) (b. 1942)

1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)

1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)

1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)

1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)

1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)

2003 – Fred Rogers, American television host (b. 1928)

2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and journalist, founded the National Review (b. 1925)

2013 – Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations and The Monitors) (b. 1942)

Today is

National Strawberry Day

National Chili Day

National Kahlua Day

No Brainer Day

International Polar Bear Day

National Day of Action


17 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    that my brain is on hiatus. There is no telling when it will be functioning again at a realistic level.

    I’m on my sofa sideways with my legs stretched out. The first thing I see is my feet, and if I look up further I see an overcrowded bookcase badly in need of organization.

    Coffee and wine, if they are really vices, are two things I don’t really intend to give up, not unless either becomes a health issue, and currently I can find plenty of literature out there saying both are good for you in moderation. Same with chocolate. Cheese and bread are both serious vices of mine that have fewer defenders in the scientific community.

    I haven’t stayed up all night in so long – it’s been well over 10 years. I like going to bed when the sun is just beginning to shine in the windows, but it’s not easy. My memory says the last time was accidental. Sometimes when you’re having fun you stop noting the passage of time.

    If someone refused to take my wedding pictures because he/she hated something about me and my lifestyle, I would definitely NOT use them, and I would spread the word about them. I would not use them because if the function they are to serve is important to me, I would not want them in charge of something they could deliberately screw up. Besides, how many ‘phobic wedding photographers could be possessed of actual talent? I’d have to see a portfolio consisting of way more than stock studio portraits. That said, the law that was just vetoed in Arizona was a heinous thing. I suspect if it had gone through, it would have backfired for those businesses financially in the long run.

  2. Gee

    What is the first thing you see right now when you look up from your computer?

    Do you have any vices you refuse to give up? If so, what?

    When was the last time you willingly stayed up all night?

    If someone refused to take your wedding pictures because he/she hated something about you and your lifestyle, would you force the issue?

    I’ve got a poster above this computer from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation.

    What’s a vice and what isn’t?  I’ll probably continue to drink as long as it doesn’t harm my health.  I may take up a new vice or two after I retire.

    About 1980.

    Now, there’s an interesting question.  Weddings are already so stressful that one is tempted to avoid one more problem.  But I’m also tempted to do a Morgan Spurlock and tell the photographer, “Oh, come on, come and get to know us!”  And sue ’em if they don’t  😉

  3. Gee

    And then the cowards claimed that their religious freedom was being denied. Their freedom to deny my freedom!

    – Chris Dashiell

    This is the thing you can’t get through a Libertarian’s thick skull.  A former co-worker of mine (who was not actually a racist as far as I could tell) asked me, “Why can’t we just associate with people we want to?”  I mean, a question like that shows that you haven’t thought even to Step B, which is, “Wait a minute, just so you don’t have to associate with certain people, those people cannot own a house in your neighborhood or get a job where you happen to work?  Because that’s the necessary result of you getting what you want.”

  4. Gee

    In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified officially limiting a president to two terms of office. Can’t have any more of those Socialist Roosevelt types!

    Right after they did this, the Republicans elected Eisenhower, who could probably have been re-elected multiple times (if he had been healthy enough).

  5. This snark cuts a little too close to the truth … especially since he is not against starving them when they get home:

       Dick Cheney: “Obama is reducing troop levels, when everyone knows you can save money by cutting armor for troops fighting a war in Iraq.”

       – Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 27, 2014

    This. Exactly.

       Cons: Replace these activist judges with OUR activist judges.

       – Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 26, 2014

    You made me go look up “replicant”!!!

    Charlie Pierce on the “courage” of Gov. Brewer:

    Not everyone agrees with the decision, of course. Over at Tiger Beat On The Potomac, Rich (Sparkle Pants) Lowry would like you to know that there was absolutely nothing anti-gay about the bill, and he cites among the misinformed, “influential liberal pundit Kirsten Powers,” whereupon the gods on Olympus laughed so loud and long that there were 40 days of rain in Sparta.[…]

    This law was no more about religious freedom than Brewer’s veto was about her devotion to gay rights, but, if the right thing gets done for the wrong reason, well, that’s the way things work in a democratic republic

    It is a No-Brainer that this … “In 1986, the Senate allowed its debates to be televised” … was a big mistake. Green Eggs and Ham was future-ruined.

    Today’s hovers may seem Volga to some but they would be a bunch of Rhine-ers …

    Thanks, Floja Roja!

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