Interrogatories
How hot and spicy do you like your food? What’s your favorite hot and spicy food?
Do you use coupons? If so, do you save a lot of money?
Do you ever correct people’s English if they make really bad mistakes while speaking?
The Twitter Emitter
All these judges overturning gay marriage bans. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah. It's like they think gays have rights under the Constitution.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 15, 2014
Buffer zones around Supreme Courts are unconstitutional. I just want to talk to them.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 15, 2014
When corporations poison our water and the #GOP threatens to blow up the global economy, the terrorists not only win, they take the day off
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 15, 2014
“Senate has been unable to extend unemployment benefits.” “At Fort Sumter the states have been unable to end slavery”
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 15, 2014
If the long-term unemployed were threatening to cause Republicans in Congress flight delays, they'd have their unemployment by sundown.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 15, 2014
Obscure Florida law states that car dealerships may only make tv commercials that feature untalented grandchildren.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 15, 2014
GOP economic policy is driven by their dripping contempt for the POOR.
— Don Millard (@OTOOLEFAN) January 15, 2014
Louie Gohmert's performance art is cruel and condescending to ignorant hayseeds.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) January 15, 2014
Sarah Palin: "I hope my friends know not to call me when Duck Dynasty is on tonight. #StandWithPhil Also anyone know what time and channel?"
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 15, 2014
Rand Paul: I joined Snapchat. Now send me your reproductive rights and watch them disappear 🙂
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 15, 2014
On This Day
In 1547, Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV) became Czar of Russia.
In 1581, English Parliament outlawed Roman Catholicism.
In 1786, Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom, authored by Thomas Jefferson
In 1847, John C. Fremont became Governor of the new California territory.
In 1909, Ernest Shackleton’s expedition found the magnetic South Pole.
In 1920, Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect.
In 1969, two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel.
In 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
In 1992, El Salvador’s government and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City that put an end to the 12 years of civil war that had killed at least 75,000 people.
In 2006, Africa’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as Liberia’s president.
In 2007, some guy named Barack Obama launched his bid for the Presidency.
Born on This Day
1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
1824 – Seymour Joseph Guy, English painter and printmaker (d. 1910)
1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer, also the illegitimate (is there a nice word for that?) son of famed actress Ellen Terry. (d. 1966)
1878 – Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
1933 – Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1947 – Sarah Jane Olson, American political activist
1947 – Laura Schlessinger, American wingnut radio talk show host
1959 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1961 – Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke, Prong, and Ministry) (d. 2007)
1962 – Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
1965 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
1974 – Kate Moss, English model who was criticized as encouraging poor body image in young girls (and was one of the first to represent “heroin chic.”)
1979 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
Died on This Day
1668 – Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, French painter (b. 1611)
1752 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
1901 – Hiram Revels, first African-American to serve in the U. S. Senate (b. 1822)
1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
1979 – Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family) (b. 1932)
1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
1993 – Florence Desmond, [Dawson], actress (b. 1905)
1993 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter (b. 1917)
Today is
National Nothing Day
International Hot & Spicy Food Day
National Nothing Day
Dragon Appreciation Day
Religious Freedom Day
Hot & Spicy Food Day
Fig Newton Day
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