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Playing racquetball tonight, for some reason I remembered one of the best moments of my life. I had a racquetball class in college and one morning I was making a bunch of nice shots while playing the professor. He lunged for one of them, missed, and dry heaved a while until he wet heaved a little bit in his mouth. He ended the spectacle by spitting in the corner. We kept playing and I won. He said he shouldn't have drank so much the previous night. You said it, professor!

April 15, 2023

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Funny thing is, that's the year I wasn't in college.

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The president said today that Comey reopening Clinton's email case a few days before the election was a veiled attempt to get a job with her. Yep, and I guess if he wanted to be even more certain he'd get the job he should have murdered her family.

April 15, 2018

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Feeling nostalgic moving out of our current warehouse. So many great air hockey games. Midway down, to the left there's one circled...it was marked in blood from a head wound I received during the game after I was thrown headfirst into a foosball table.

April 15, 2016

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Could that banana wine have really been as good as I remember it?

April 15, 2010

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My cat snuck out and was lost for 24 hours. When he came back in he took a long, long pee in the litter box. He didn't realize he could have peed outside!

April 15, 2009

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The kids got some candy cigarettes at the vintage candy store. Don't see them around too much anymore.

April 15, 2022

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Best of luck, dude.

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Yesterday in history, Lincoln was shot and the Titanic struck an iceberg. Today in history, Lincoln died and the Titanic sunk.

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On this day in 1922, the process started to investigate what would become the Teapot Dome scandal. Today the Teapot Dome scandal would be considered business as usual. 

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated on this day in 1945.

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Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line on this day in 1947, starting off a chain of events that would culminate in my watching Ken Burns' Baseball and busting out crying listening to Red Barber's account of that moment in time. Branch Rickey gave him the option to call the game properly with Jackie Robinson playing, where to quit. Red went home to think about it and ended up telling his wife that he thought he had to quit. She said, "Well you don't have to quit now, let's have a martini." Haha. He reflected on it for days and realized that it was just pure chance that he was born white and Jackie Robinson was born black. Elementary moral philosophy, you have treat others as you would want to be treated if you were in their shoes.

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The first franchised McDonald's restaurant opened on this day in 1955, in Des Plaines, Illinois. I haven't eaten at a McDonald's for about 25 years. I would love to go back and eat at one of those early ones, back when the total people served was nintends of thousands versus the trillions. I bet all the food was delicious and healthy! They chose quantity over quality.

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Tiananmen Square protests began on this day in 1989.

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The Boston Marathon in Boston was bombed on this day in 2013, killing three.

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Leonardo da Vinci was born on this day in 1452. In my opinion, this is a great quote.

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

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Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was born on this day in 1707. He is probably the most significant mathematician that nobody has ever heard of, and universally considered the best of the 1700s. The flow of high school and college algebra textbooks are basically unchanged since Euler. You know what he said after he went blind? "Now I will have fewer distractions." What???

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French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, joined us on this day in 1858.

"A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risk questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt."

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Italian actress Claudia Cardinale was born on this day on 1938. Perhaps the only 1960s silver screen star who also starred in a Herzog movie.

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Seth Rogen was born on this day in 1982 when I was in second grade, learning how to add two three-digit numbers. I don't really find him funny, but I loved what he said about the oscars, questioning why anybody should even care about it, saying it's not like he cares about automobile awards. 

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How about the list of people who died on this day- Jean-Paul Sartre, Greta Garbo, Pol Pot, Edward Gorey, Joey Ramone, R. Lee Ermey, and Emma Morano, the last person alive who was born in the 1800s. I'm imagining R. Lee Ermey running that motley crew in hell. "The Ho Chi Minh is the son of a bitch, got the blue balls, crabs, and the seven year itch." I love that the seven year itch is included in that assortment of maladies. I didn't see the Seven Year Itch until about 30 years after I saw a Full Metal Jacket, and until that time I didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

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Writer and naturalist, Henry Beston, left us on this day in 1968.

"The chromium millennium ahead of us, I gather, is going to be an age whose ideal is a fantastically unnatural human passivity. We are to spend our lives in cushioned easy chairs, growing indolent and heavy while intricate slave mechanisms do practically everything for us as we loll.

What a really appalling future! What normal human being would choose it, and what twist of the spirit has created this sluggish paradise?" 

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On this day in 1977, the day before it was to appear in court, cult leader Oric Bovar threw himself out a window in downtown Manhattan.

He had been trying to revive dead cult member for several months.

Angela Joyce, a copy editor, happened to look up at that moment to see a man in mid-air with his arms spread out in the shape of a cross. These cult leaders always see themselves as Jesus. His enlightenment/breakdown came after a coma.

He had one time said that if he left out a window, the Hand of God would pull him back.

Oric Bovar and the Broadway cult:

 https://youtu.be/R6-bPGuPrAc

A member later said, "A cult never calls itself a cult."

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Rose Maddox of The Maddox Brothers and Rose left this on this day in 1998. A perfect song, Philadelphia Lawyer.

https://youtu.be/NwwxL4JCbQM

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Well that answers the age-old question- what happens when your aunt is Ayn Rand and you ask her for money for a dress? (I think she got off pretty light.)

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/ayn_rand_worst_aunt

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Yahoo News- The deluded generation: Teens clueless about own abilities, finances, prospects

They do less for better grades, so they don't know anything but are confident they do! (What harm could come from this?)

http://news.yahoo.com/deluded-generation-teens-clueless-own-abilities-finances-prospects-060211780.html

April 15, 2013

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Among the greatest of great scenes, the Spranos finale 

http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx

April 15, 2015

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Loretta Young, looking very modern.

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Einstein- "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

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Carl Sagan; The Demon-Haunted World- “The Bible is full of so many stories of contradictory moral purpose that every generation can find scriptural justification for nearly any action it proposes—from incest, slavery, and mass murder to the most refined love, courage, and self-sacrifice.” 

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Mark Twain- “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

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Richard Dawkins- "If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. Where if you're religious and you believe in another life somehow, that means you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. Being a atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily and fully."

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Kinison- "Religion: the only place where people preach about love and practice hatred at the same time!"

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Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation- It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail."

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Vonnegut- “She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing.”

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Sartre- "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson- “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” 

In the spirit of existentialism, I consider this blog to be my bible.

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April 15, 2006

Best clothing coordination ever?

I just saw a guy wearing a shirt of a placard warning, "DANGER: GIANT PENIS". As I stared in amazement I saw his hat which said, "CUMMING SOON."

The Mountville/Columbia K-Mart- some call it a wretched hive of scum and villianny. I call it home.

Where are the girls from Ghost World when you really need to talk to them?