Newt Ethics, Hitler's One Ball, and 500 Years of Church/State Separation
George Orwell left us on this day in 1950. Great quote:
"So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information."
January 21, 2022
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Perhaps the recipe for all art and culture, from Ingmar Bergman.
January 21, 2022
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I stopped following Ben Shapiro, so now I'll have find another way to find out what Alyssa Milano and Kirstie Alley think about current events. That's a fact, not a feeling.
January 21, 2021
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Did you ever look closely at this picture? I can't believe I never saw the guy to the left of Jack from our perspective.
January 21, 2021
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I'm drinking some evening tea so I can stay up and finish the Night Stalker documentary on Netflix.
January 21, 2021
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Obi-Wan Spicer just told the media to not trust their eyes which can be deceived, Trump's inauguration crowd was the biggest ever. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm no Jedi. I'm not switching off my targeting computer.
January 21, 2017
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I'm noticing a lot of people criticizing "feminists." I don't get it, everybody I know believes in equal rights for women, so everybody I know is a feminist.
January 21, 2017
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Trump is already outdoing Hitler. He went to three balls last night but Hitler only had one ball.
January 21, 2017
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Backwards Trump strikes again. He gave his post-apocalyptic Farewell Address as his Inaugural Address.
January 21, 2017
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To all of the "Trump's the president, get over it" people, I have very clear message- I don't like Trump, get over it.
January 21, 2017
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I'm not pessimistic concerning our future. Stephen Pinker's book, The Better Angles of Our Nature, gives me hope...facts and figures and arguments showing that world has been becoming increasingly safer. Bone fragments show that perhaps 50% of prehistoric people died as a result of violence. We've come a long way. Slavery was outlawed in every country. Religious freedom took hold. Think about just the last hundred years- human rights, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, even animal rights. We're currently in the longest period of no wars between major countries. We have huge problems, to be sure! We have ups and downs but things have trended positively.
BUT, with nuclear weapons and impending climate change there could be drastic changes. Things have trended positively but it's up to us ensure that they continue to do so.
January 21, 2017
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Hahaha, that's right, Santorum won Iowa in 2012 for real! I still remember it as if it was an Onion headline.
January 21, 2016
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Worst cover letter ever!
"Cover Letter- wana try."
I'll tell you one thing- Yoda wouldn't hire him!
January 21, 2016
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I wonder daily what will end up killing me, but today I'm wondering- if that wouldn't have killed me, then what would have?
January 21, 2011
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I feel like I tore a tendon playing ping pong.
January 21, 2011
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The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was founded on this day in 1525, when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. All of my ancestors are Swiss and German Anabaptists.
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On this day in 1997, the House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined. His crime? He claimed tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. Seems pretty light by today's standards!
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Bodybuilder and friend-of-a-friend, Steve Reeves, was born on this day in 1926.
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Other notable birthdays- Stonewall Jackson (1824), Karl Wallenda (1905), Benny Hill (1924)
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On this day in 1931, murderer and bank robber, Francis "Two Gun" Crowley was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, at the age of 19. He had three-month crime spree culminating in a two-hour shootout with the New York City Police, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders.
His last words- "You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother."
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Carl Switzer left us on this day in 1959 at the age of 31, apparently a murder victim, although Carl certainly didn't help the situation. Love his appearance in It's a Wonderful life.
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Monty Python's Terry Jones left us on this day in 2020.
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Another notable deathday- Louie Anderson (2022)
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Oddly entrancing. "You're a creep, Charlie Brown."
https://youtu.be/Ty_nGqPLkTc
January 21, 2012
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Huffington Post- Indonesian Atheist Attacked, Faces Jail Time After Posting 'God Doesn't Exist' On Facebook
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/atheist-attacked-faces-jail-time-facebook-god_n_1219778.html
January 21, 2012
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Cracked- 5 Insane Prison Escapes You Won't Believe Actually Worked
These are simply some great prison escapes!
5. Ted Bundy asked to study law books, then just walked out.
4. A Greek Bank robber escaped prison via helicopter- TWICE!
3. Charles Victor Thompson walked right past a prison guard.
2. Jewel thief, Alfie Hinds, locked two prison guards in a bathroom
1. Richard Lee McNair used lip balm to grease up his handcuffs to escape a police station, actually crawled through the heat ducts to escape a penitentiary, then he got a job in the mail room of another penitentiary and mailed himself out!
http://www.cracked.com/article_20228_5-insane-prison-escapes-you-wont-believe-actually-worked.html
January 21, 2013
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The Onion- Report: % Of Americans Suffer From Synesthesia
My guess is that if you're not me, you don't find this hilarious.
http://onion.com/LPDIOW
January 21, 2014
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Michael Shermer- Why Do We Need a Belief In God?
Answer, our shared history of patternicity, agenticity, social cohesion...
https://youtu.be/FcgXT92f5Ww
January 21, 2014
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A critical life lesson - it's better to be a little hungry than full.
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Hilarious story from a friend:
I got another round of nerve injections today. For my nerve compression from my hernia surgery. Multiple injections in my hip, groin, thigh and knee.
Boy, he kept hitting my hip/pelvic bone today. But you cant flinch or squawk. Not a good idea. Haha.
Afterwards, I said. "Somewhere, there is voodoo doll shaped like me screaming his head off."
He didnt laugh...
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Sculpture by Fredrik Raddum
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Muhammad Ali- "If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you."
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Tom Maia- "I decided to go on a Draconian diet, cutting alcohol, fat, and sugar. In 2 weeks, I lost 14 days."
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George Burns- "When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick."
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Doug Benson- "We broke up because I saw her lying- under another man."
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Benjamin Disraeli- "I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
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Camus- "The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests."
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Benjamin Franklin- "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
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Hawking- "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever, " said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!""
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Asimov- "The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists."
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Attell- "So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, mostly cause my dad used to beat me with a globe."
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