Interrogatories
What is your favorite kind of cracker? What do you like to have on your cracker?
Who’s your favorite astronaut?
Do you ever eat frozen food (after it’s thawed and prepared, of course)? Examples?
The Twitter Emitter
I asked @LindseyGrahamSC who killed JFK, he said, "Benghazi."
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 4, 2014
Somewhere an ESL teacher is trying to explain why cough, rough, bough, & dough don't rhyme.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) March 5, 2014
Today President McCain invaded the Ukraine, getting into a land war in Asia, before then going against a Sicilian with death on the line.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 5, 2014
Today President McCain invaded the Ukraine, getting into a land war in Asia, before then going against a Sicilian with death on the line.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 5, 2014
Steve Stockman: “I didn’t lose to John Cornyn, I just gave up running for Senate for Lent.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 5, 2014
The Road to Republican Victory is Paved with Liberals Who Don't Vote #Vote2014 #UniteBlue #p2
— TheNewDeal (@TheNewDeal) March 5, 2014
Time for Obama to recess-appoint Willie Horton, for America.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 5, 2014
NASA: "The giant asteroid will safely pass Earth. Though if not, it's because of Obama's weak leadership and mom jeans."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 5, 2014
Who would want talented people with admirable ambitions defending them anyhow?!
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) March 5, 2014
Adding insult to injury, Darrell Issa stole Elijah Cummings' car after abruptly adjourning today's hearing.
— roadkillrefugee (@rkref) March 6, 2014
On This Day
In 1834, the city of Toronto was incorporated.
In 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, the Alamo fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
In 1857, in its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
In 1912, the National Biscuit Co., which later became Nabisco, introduced Oreo cookies.
In 1951, the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg began.
In 1964, Nation of Islam’s Elijah Muhammad officially gave boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
In 1967, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected to the United States.
In 1981, after 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time.
In 2006, Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation banning most abortions in South Dakota. (The ban was later rejected by the state’s voters).
In 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
Born on This Day
1475 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1564)
1610 – Simon Luttichuys, Dutch painter (d. 1662)
1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
1658 – Franz Werner von Tamm, German painter (d. 1724)
1722 – Johann-Christian Brand, Austrian landscape painter (d. 1795)
1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
1834 – George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1847 – Federico Andreotti, Italian painter (d. 1930) specializing in simpering maidens and their smarmy suitors.
1861 – Friedrich Eckenfelder, German painter (d. 1938)
1861 – Carlo Brancaccio, Italian painter (d. 1920)
1882 – Guy Kibbee, American actor (d. 1956)
1885 – Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
1893 – Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
1913 – Ella Logan, Scottish actress (d. 1969)
1913 – Stewart Granger, English actor (d. 1993)
1916 – Rochelle Hudson, American actress (d. 1972)
1923 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (d. 2010)
1923 – Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
1923 – Wes Montgomery, American jazz musician (d. 1968)
1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist, former Federal Reserve chairman
1927 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Rallis Georghakis, Cypriot painter
1936 – Marion Barry Jr., American politician
1936 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer, musician and record producer (Mickey & Sylvia) (d. 2011)
1940 – Ken Danby, Canadian realist painter (d. 2007)
1942 – Flora Purim, Brazilian jazz singer (Return to Forever)
1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer
1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
1945 – Hugh Grundy, British drummer (The Zombies)
1946 – David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1953 – Phil Alvin, American singer and guitarist (The Blasters)
1963 – D. L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
1964 – Madonna Wayne Gacy (Stephen Gregory Bier Jr.), American musician
1974 – Guy Garvey, British musician (Elbow)
1981 – Ellen Muth, American actress (Dead Like Me)
1984 – Chris Tomson, American musician (Vampire Weekend)
Died on This Day
1638 – Paulus Moreelse, Dutch painter (b. 1571)
1673 – Daniel de Blieck, Dutch architectural painter (b. 1630)
1797 – William Hodges, English landscape painter (b. 1744)
1836 – James “Jim” Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
1836 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
1895 – Francesco Filippini, Italian painter (b. 1853)
1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1907 – John Frederick Herring the Younger, British horse painter (b. 1815)
1917 – Valdemar Psilander Danish actor (b. 1884)
1927 – Marie Spartali Stillman, painter (b. 1844)
1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
1933 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 – Mary Petty, American illustrator (b. 1899)
1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
1986 – Georgia O’Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
Today is
Alamo Day
Read Aloud Day
National Frozen Food Day
National White Chocolate Cheese Cake Day
Fun Facts About Names Day
Dentist’s Day
15 comments