Interrogatories
For National Vinyl Records Day, what is your preferred music medium? Vinyl, CD, digital…?
It’s International Youth Day. Are you the “get off my lawn” type, or do you tolerate or even enjoy the young (not counting the ones related to you)?
Did you ever read comics? If so, which ones? Do you still read them (or graphic novels)?
Do you play computer games? Which ones?
The Twitter Emitter
ObamaCare is not a 'blueprint for Socialism' – you're thinking of The New Testament.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 11, 2013
Gov. Bob McDonnell: "I don't see a problem with crisis pregnancy centers lying to women. They were probably lied to when they got pregnant."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 11, 2013
So when your taxes kills ppl overseas it's considered 'defense;' when your tax $ helps ppl here it's considered 'theft.'
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 11, 2013
You call them natural disasters. I call them destructive criticism.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) August 11, 2013
And now Whites do not want Blacks to make any mention of race issues or else Blacks are being divisive & racists. That's #ReversePsychology
— bPositive (@bPositive_) August 10, 2013
Please proofread your tweets before posting. #NSA snoops have never seen such poor spelling and grammar. #privacy #4thA #PRISM #XKeyscore
— Tarbell Steffens (@lexicosm) August 11, 2013
I don't want 2 hear 1 single person complaining about The POTUS taking a 1 WEEK vacation while CongreASS takes a 5 week vacation. Fuck Them.
— The ObamaCrat™ (@MrMilitantNegro) August 11, 2013
There's no greater arrogance than thinking GOD spared your life while letting others die.
— Don Millard (@OTOOLEFAN) August 11, 2013
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll fish all the fish. Those are YOUR fish. Probably safest to kill that guy
— Drew Koshgarian (@MostlyPregnant) August 11, 2013
I'm going to sell organic air, harvested from the lungs of baby koalas
— Atrios (@Atrios) August 11, 2013
On This Day
In 30 BC, Cleopatra (7th of her name and the only famous one) allegedly made an asp of herself. It was fatal.
In 1851, Isaac Singer received a patent for his sewing machine.
In 1898, Hawaii was annexed to the United States, though it did not receive the privileges of statehood until 1959 (though there are some today who insist it is still not part of the U.S.).
In 1898, the Spanish-American War officially ended.
In 1964, South Africa was first banned from the Olympics for their racist apartheid policy. I guess we can’t ban Russia for their homophobic laws since they are hosting.
In 1981, IBM released their first PC.
In 2004, the Supreme Court of California ruled that the same sex marriages conducted in San Francisco since February of that year were void, stating that Mayor Gavin Newsom did not have the authority to allow them.
Born on This Day
1666 – Antonio Balestra, Italian painter and printmaker (d. 1740)
1762 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1815 – Dominique Papéty, French painter (d. 1849)
1849 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and naturalist (d. 1921)
1856 – Diamond Jim Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
1867 – Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator (d. 1963)
1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (d. 1958)
1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
1887 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1892 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1906 – Tedd Pierce, American animator, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1972)
1910 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)
1911 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1993)
1925 – Dale Bumpers, American politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas
1926 – John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)
1926 – Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1927 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
1928 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter.
1929 – Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Buckaroos) (d. 2006)
1930 – George Soros, Hungarian-American businessman, financier, and philanthropist and secret employer of liberals worldwide
1933 – Samuel Bak, Polish-born Israeli painter and Holocaust survivor
1939 – George Hamilton, American actor and tanning champion
1945 – Ron Mael, American keyboard player and songwriter (Sparks)
1949 – Mark Knopfler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and composer (Dire Straits) (I’m sure this is a holiday at Chez side pocket.)
1950 – Jim Beaver, American actor and scriptwriter (Deadwood, Supernatural)
1951 – Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist and Republican boogieman
1954 – François Hollande, French politician, 24th President of France (not to be confused with long-banned Kossack Francis L. Holland)
1954 – Pat Metheny, American guitarist and composer (Pat Metheny Group)
1963 – Sir Mix-a-Lot, American rapper and producer
1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian, actor, writer, and director
1972 – Del the Funky Homosapien, American rapper and producer (Hieroglyphics, Deltron 3030, and Gorillaz)
Died on This Day
1484 – Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
1580 – Luca Longhi, Italian painter (b. 1507)
1648 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
1667 – Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Dutch Baroque painter, mainly of landscapes (b. 1594)
1674 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
1689 – Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
1827 – William Blake, English poet and painter (b. 1757)
1854 – Antoine Chazal, French painter and engraver (b. 1793)
1877 – James Drummond, Scottish painter (b. 1816)
1913 – Aimé Morot, French painter (b. 1850)
1918 – Anna Held, Polish-American actress and singer (b. 1872) This hover is a repeat from last year. Hope you don’t mind!
1927 – Alfred Zoff, Austrian landscape painter (b. 1852)
1944 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American navy officer and pilot (b. 1915)
1964 – Ian Fleming, English intelligence officer, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
1982 – Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
1990 – B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
1990 – Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (b. 1903)
1992 – John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
1997 – Luther Allison, American guitarist (b. 1939)
2000 – Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
2007 – Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1925)
2010 – Richie Hayward, American drummer and songwriter (Little Feat and Fraternity of Man) (b. 1946)
Today is
International Youth Day
National Julienne Fries Day
Middle Child’s Day
Kool-aid Day
IBM PC Day
Vinyl Record Day
Sewing Machine Day
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