Interrogatories
It’s bagelfest. How would you like your bagel?
Night of the Hunter1 – Mitchum or DeNiro?
Name a food you are afraid to eat. Would you dare to try it today and report back here?
Do you like your siblings’ lovers and/or spouses? If no siblings, how about best friends?
What’s in your wallet?
1 Renzo and bubbanomics have pointed out that I am confusing Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter. Night of the Hunter was only remade as a TV movie starring Dr. Kildare. I am leaving it up because Night of the Hunter is so fracking amazing that all of you should see it.
The Twitter Emitter
Snowden to be released from Moscow airport, given one hour head start, and hunted by shirtless Putin on horseback.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 24, 2013
New Fox News poll finds George Zimmerman is well positioned for the 2016 Republican primary pic.twitter.com/81RzF84U01
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 25, 2013
They say you'll find love in the unlikeliest places, but I've been in the Sahara for a week now and I'm not convinced. Also, SEND WATER!
— Sixth Form Poet (@sixthformpoet) July 25, 2013
One of the biggest problems in this country is that we've confused having an opinion with being knowledgable.
— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) July 25, 2013
Stop the name-calling, you drug mules.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) July 25, 2013
As long as Republicans are urging everyone not to buy insurance, we might as well urge everyone not to buy banking, either.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) July 25, 2013
Some people hit rock bottom and start looking for a shovel.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) July 25, 2013
Anthony Weiner publicly demands for John Edwards to stop sending him Thank-You Gifts.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 25, 2013
With the Voting Rights Act gone, Florida restarted their purge of possible non-citizen voters by eliminating all Latinos not named Rubio.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) July 25, 2013
With all of the Huma Abedin stories out there today, I am deeply disappointed that there is not one entitled: Oh, The Huma-nity!
— TBogg (@tbogg) July 25, 2013
Speaking of Moses, have you seen that guy's calves? 40 years in the desert!
— David Waldman (@KagroX) July 25, 2013
On This Day
In 1788, New York ratified the Constitution, becoming the 11th state in the union.
In 1908, the FBI (then known as the Bureau of Investigation) was established.
In 1941, FDR ordered the seizure of all assets owned by the Japanese in the United States.
In 1947, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, which created the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
In 1948, President Harry Truman desegregated the military with one swipe of his pen, via Executive Order 9981.
in 1952, Adlai Stevenson became the Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party at their Chicago convention.
In 1955, Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters, and directed by Charles Laughton, premiered.
In 1963, the world’s first geosynchronous satellite (it orbits the earth so that it always is in the same part of the sky no matter what time it is), Syncom 2, was launched into orbit.
In 1990, the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) was signed into law by Bush Sr.
Born on This Day
1749 – John Warwick Smith, English painter (d. 1831)
1783 – Antoine Duclaux, French animal and landscape painter (d. 1868)
1796 – George Catlin, American painter (d. 1872)
1800 – Octave Tassaert, French painter and printmaker (d. 1874)
1846 – Hermann Kaulbach, German history and genre painter (d. 1909)
1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1870 – Ignacio Zuloaga, Spanish painter (d. 1945)
1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
1886 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1892 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1893 – George Grosz, German painter (d. 1959)
1894 – Aldous Huxley, English author (d. 1963)
1895 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
1895 – Jankel Adler, Polish painter (d. 1949)
1918 – Marjorie Lord, American actress
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (d. 1999)
1922 – Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American director (d. 1999)
1938 – Darlene Love, American singer and actress
1940 – Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1940 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American teacher, secretary, and writer (d. 1969)
1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
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1945 – Betty Davis, American singer-songwriter
1945 – Helen Mirren, English actress
1949 – Roger Taylor, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Queen and The Cross)
1950 – Susan George, English actress
1957 – Nana Visitor, American actress
1959 – Kevin Spacey, American actor
1961 – Andy Connell, English keyboardist and composer (Swing Out Sister and A Certain Ratio)
1964 – Sandra Bullock, American actress and producer
1965 – Jeremy Piven, American actor and producer
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, English actress
Died on This Day
1471 – Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1671 – Cornelis de Baellieur I, Flemish painter (b. 1607)
1702 – Vincent van der Vinne I, Flemish painter and draftsman, best known for his travel diaries and sketches (b. 1629)
1728 – Paolo di Matteis, Italian painter (b. 1662)
1801 – Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (b. 1756)
1802 – Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, French Neoclassical painter (b. 1761)
1830 – George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
1863 – Sam Houston, American politician and soldier, 7th Governor of Texas (b. 1793)
1919 – Edward Poynter, English painter (b. 1836)
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
1938 – Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, British Socialite and mistress to King Edward VII (b. 1861)
1946 – Morris Hirshfield, Polish-American painter (b. 1872)
1952 – Eva Perón, Argentine actress and politician, First Lady of Argentina (b. 1919)
1960 – Cedric Gibbons, American art director and designer (b. 1893)
1971 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)
1984 – George Gallup, American statistician, inventor of the Gallup poll (b. 1901)
1984 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 – W. Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1990 – Brent Mydland, American keyboardist and songwriter (Grateful Dead, Bobby and the Midnites, and Silver) (b. 1952)
1992 – Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1995 – George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (b. 1907)
2011 – Margaret Olley, Australian painter (b. 1923)
2012 – Karl Benjamin, American painter (b. 1925)
Today is
Lumberjack Day
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System Administrator Appreciation Day
All or Nothing Day
Aunt and Uncle Day
National Bagelfest
National Coffee Milkshake Day
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