Ephemeris of Miscellany

Stephen Wright- "The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, "Where the hell is my roof?" ... My heart is racing. This Nadal/Djokovic French Open quarterfinal match is beyond words. May 31, 2022 ... Fox News is calling for Trump to address the nation, in an effort calm things down.  Trump??? They think that's something Trump can do? Have they ever met Trump? They think one of Trump's abilities is to soothe the nation? Maybe somebody could write him a nice speech, but he'll deliver the conciliatory parts in a monotone drone, and he'll read the angry parts that he insisted on all fiery. How about this instead- Pence or Biden? I mean they MIGHT both suck, but they're not going to make things WORSE! May 31, 2020 ... 16 Cognitive Distortions, Positive Psychology, by Courtney Ackerman 10. Labeling and Mislabeling These tendencies are basically extreme forms of overgeneralization, in which we assign judgments of value to ours...

Kurt Vonnegut was a POW in Nazi Germany and survived the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden by taking shelter in the underground meat locker of a slaughterhouse. This loosely formed the basis of Slaughterhouse-Five. Here's an excerpt from Cat's Cradle: “Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. “I do not mean to be ungrateful for the fine, martial show we are about to see—and a thrilling show it really will be..." He looked each of us in the eye, and then he commented very softly, throwing it away, “And hooray say I for thrilling shows.” We had to strain our ears to hear what Minton said next. “But if today is really in honor of a hundred children murdered in war,” he said, “is today a day for a thrilling show?" “The answer is yes, on one condition: that we, the celebrants, are ...

Shakespearean actress Inga Tidblad joined us on this day in 1901. ... George Carlin's second wife said that when he was performing he had a crystal in his pocket so that he could draw from its strength. That sounds like the kind of New-Agey pseudo-psycho horseshit that would be made fun of by none other than George Carlin. ... Dave Chappelle doesn't think that George Carlin is funny. He thinks that he just worked out funny routines but that he's not a funny guy. That blew my mind. I think he's right. ... Apparently there's a battle over whether to count undated PA Republican governor ballots. The answer is simple. The point of an election is to discern the will of the voter, and that supersedes any technicality. That benefits one candidate and not the other, which might almost seem unfair, but it benefits the candidate more voters wanted to win. May 29, 2022 ... Movie stars. May 29, 2019 ... On this day in 1965, the Phillies 3B, Dick Allen, hit a 529ft home run over...

On this day back in 2013, people were in uproar over a JCPenney teapot that they said looked like Hitler. And guess what, it does! ... We stopped by St. Stephens Graveyard in New Holland for Memorial Day. All of my grandparents are buried there, along with a pair of my 8x great-grandparents, John and Susanna Schneider who left Germany in the early 1700's to escape religious persecution. Their son Michael (who I believe was my 7x great-grandfather) fought in the Revolutionary War. Zuzu saw fit to turn the occasion into a Dr. Pepper commercial. May 28, 2023 ... Someone asked the psychologist Jean Piaget one time which was more important to human development, nature or nurture. Piaget asked which was more important to the area of a field, length or width. ... Psychologist Alfred Adler left us on this day in 1937- he's the one who did work on inferiority complexes which play a huge role in how we view ourselves and others. ... YouTube viral hit in waiting for someone... edit the pr...