Interrogatories
If you could devise a Rare Disease for Rare Disease Day that would affect only political figures on the right-wing persuasion, what disease would you give them? (Like foot-in-mouth-itis)
What book signings have you been to?
What is the last thing you rented?
The Twitter Emitter
A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion.
— ML Hipster (@ML_Hipster) February 25, 2014
In lieu of Bitcoin, I’ve stuck to flushing $100 bills down a toilet. I’m deep in the red but at least I understand exactly what’s going on.
— John Gruber (@gruber) February 26, 2014
Millions of churches you can go to? Check. Thousands of Christian radio stations and TV shows? Check. STFU about being oppressed.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 27, 2014
OBAMACARE DAY 58: Texas gay marries Kentucky, all Christian residents forced to prepare floral arrangements; Subway offers marijuana salads
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) February 27, 2014
First Obama empowers impoverished young black men, next white people are forced to work in BitCoin mines. That's how it works sheeple!
— Lex (@LuthorCEO) February 27, 2014
Hell is an airport where everyone has a laptop and there's only one socket.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 27, 2014
Human beings are the only creatures on earth with the potential to make themselves the only creatures on earth.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 28, 2014
Just let me know how exactly I should live my life so you have your "religious freedom."
http://t.co/BQGrDc0SQb
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 28, 2014
And, even with ten years of gay marriage, Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the United States. #protectingmarriage
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) February 28, 2014
If gays have rights and can get married, then all you ladies will miss out on forcing them into loveless marriages. Call your Congressman!
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 28, 2014
On This Day
In 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in as a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.
In 1940, the first televised basketball was shown (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden), an event that would eventually lead to Madness (and March).
In 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced that they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
In 1972, President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai signed the Shanghai Communique, moving towards normalizing relations between the two countries.
In 1983, U2’s album “War” U2 was released.
In 1993, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, setting off a gun battle that would leave four agents and six Davidians dead, followed by a 51-day standoff. The unfortunate ending to this affair became a rallying cry for wingnuts of all stripes.
In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigned; the first pope to do so since 1415.
Born on This Day
1770 – François Kinsoen, Flemish painter (d. 1839)
1798 – Johann Jakob Ulrich, Swiss painter (d. 1877)
1820 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
1828 – Antonio Rotta, Italian genre painter (d. 1903)
1867 – William Degouve de Nuncques, Belgian painter (d. 1935)
1867 – Thomas Theodor Heine, German poster artist (d. 1948)
1869 – Wilson Henry Irvine, U.S. Impressionist painter (d. 1936)
1871 – Leo von König, German painter (d. 1944)
1882 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
1894 – Ben Hecht, American playwright (d. 1964)
1894 – Wim Schuhmacher, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
1895 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director (d. 1974)
1901 – Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1903 – Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986)
1906 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
1908 – William Coldstream, English painter (d. 1987)
1915 – Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977)
1917 – Odette Laure, French actress and singer (d. 2004)
1922 – Joyce Howard, British actress (d. 2010)
1923 – Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012)
1929 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect
1931 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor
1934 – Willie Bobo, American jazz percussionist (d. 1983)
1939 – Tommy Tune, American dancer
1939 – John Fahey, American steel-string acoustic guitarist (d. 2001)
1940 – Mario Andretti, Italian-American race car driver
1942 – Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
1948 – Mike Figgis, English director
1948 – Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
1953 – Paul Krugman, American economist, Nobel laureate
1957 – Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52’s)
1958 – Jack Abramoff, American businessman, political figure and convict
1969 – Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train)
1975 – Greg Simkins, American painter
Died on This Day
1453 – Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1621 – Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1748 – Johann-Rudolf Huber, Swiss portraitist (b. 1668)
1786 – Jacob-Andries Beschey, Flemish painter (b. 1710)
1808 – Nicolaes Muys, Dutch painter (b. 1740)
1818 – Anne Vallayer Coster, French painter (b. 1744)
1838 – Benjamin Barker, British painter (b. 1776)
1867 – Jacques-Raymond Brascassat, French cow painter (b. 1804)
1896 – Josef Munsch, Austrian genre painter (b. 1832)
1916 – Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
1918 – Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy, Russian landscape painter (b. 1859)
1923 – François Flameng, Parisian painter (b. 1856)
1959 – Maxwell Anderson, American playwright (b. 1888)
1974 – Bobby Bloom, American singer and songwriter (b. 1946)
1977 – Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
1983 – Hendra Gunawan, Indonesian painter (b. 1918)
1986 – Fred Kabotie, Hopi painter (b. 1900)
1993 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910)
2002 – Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
2008 – Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)
2011 – Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931)
2011 – Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)
Today is
National Chocolate Souffle Day
National Tooth Fairy Day
Read Me Day
Rare Disease Day
Public Sleeping Day
Floral Design Day
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