Voters fill out their ballots Tuesday at a polling station set up in Froehlich’s Classic Corner restaurant in Steubenville, Ohio.
Who said voting isn’t an art form?!
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Quote of the Day
“He’s got to go run in a Michigan again, but in a state where his dad wasn’t governor.”
– Republican consultant Alex Castellanos on Mitt Romney’s primary win in his boyhood state
And, Romney still can’t clinch the deal! If you kept up with yesterday’s “Super Tuesday” Republican primary fiasco, then you might be amused to know the GOP clown show will continue. I prefer Cirque du Soleil, but that’s just the artist in me. Besides, I like to get my money’s worth on things!
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March 6, 2012 – 289 days Until Baktun 12
Survivalist Tip: I had to replace a tire on my truck this morning, which reminded me how important a vehicle is – especially a large one. If you have to flee your home when the apocalypse hits, it’s best to be in a sturdy vehicle, such as a big truck, instead of something like a Toyota Camry or a “Smart Car.” I don’t care how environmentally conscious you may be; those puny runts won’t be too efficient when chaos erupts all around you! I have “Hot Wheels” bigger than those things! (No, I don’t play with “Hot Wheels” anymore.) But, I recommend investing in a large truck. You can store your most important survival gear in the bed of it: water, food rations, rope, chocolate and Xanax. Even really big trucks get good gas mileage these days, which will be critical as you traverse the barren wasteland. Besides, if any zombies in a “Smart Car” try to cause trouble, you can run their ass off the road!
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Will Digital Editions Replace the Printed Cookbook?
Here’s an interesting aspect to the growing debate about traditional books vs. e-books. Will the growing trend in digital literature extend to cookbooks? I can see it now: a happy homemaker preparing dinner from a new recipe plastered atop the stove – via magnets affixed to the back of a Kindle. Hey, it could happen! Purists may never relinquish the love of touching paper (I count myself in this group), but even I know nothing can stop some technological advances. The traditional book vs. e-books argument reminds me of snail mail vs. email; thirty years back, no one would have thought we could send birthday greeting cards in a matter of seconds. And, just a decade ago not many people imagined reading a book on a mini-TV screen. But, cookbooks? For some reason, they seem to be the last bastion of the digital divide; the final holdout. Yet, in 2011, Jamie Oliver’s recipe apps were among the top downloads – both free and paid versions. Even the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has created a digital edition of its bible: The Professional Chef. Since e-books are still a new phenomenon, it’ll be fascinating to see if the printed cookbook will suffer the same fate as the electric typewriter. You’ll just have to wipe grease stains off the Kindle before storing it next to the old fashioned nutmeg!
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Today’s Birthdays
Alan Greenspan, chairperson of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board from 1987 – 2006, is 86.
Author Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (A Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera) is 84.
Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva, former Russian cosmonaut and the first woman in space, is 75.
Actor Ben Murphy (The Winds of War, The Chisholms) is 70.
Singer Mary Wilson (The Supremes) is 68.
Drummer Hugh Grundy (The Zombies) is 67.
Singer Kiki Dee (Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Amoureuse) is 65.
Dick Fosbury (Olympic Gold Medalist and National Track & Field Hall of Famer; invented the Fosbury Flop high jump technique) is 65.
Actor – director Rob Reiner (All In the Family, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap) is 65.
Actor Tom Arnold (Roseanne, The Jackie Thomas Show) is 53.
Former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal (Orlando Magic, LA Lakers) is 40.
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On March 6…
1475 – Artist and sculptor Michelangelo de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Sistine Chapel, David) was born.
1646 – Joseph Jenkes of Massachusetts received the first official patent in the Western Hemisphere. Although handwritten, the patent was granted for a water engine prototype.
1808 – The first college orchestra was founded at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Dred Scott case, Sanford v. Dred Scott, stating that slaves didn’t have the right to sue for their freedom.
1899 – German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. receives a patent for acetylsalicylic acid, aka aspirin.
1947 – The USS Newport News was launched from a shipbuilding yard at Newport News, VA. It was the first air-conditioned naval ship.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg went on trial in New York on espionage charges.
1964 – Tom O’Hara ran the mile in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds, setting a world indoor record in Chicago, IL.
1981 – Walter Cronkite, the dean of American television newscasters, said “And that’s the way it is” for the final time, as he closed the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. An audience estimated at 17,000,000 viewers saw ‘the most trusted man in America’ sign-off.
1982 – The most points scored by two teams in the National Basketball Association made history. San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the mark.
1983 – The United States Football League began its first season of professional football competition. Fans didn’t support the new spring league opposition to the National Football League and, as a result, team names such as the Bandits, Breakers, Blitz, Invaders and Wranglers were relatively short-lived. The USFL lasted two seasons, forced to fold amid controversy, low fan acceptance and lower television ratings.
1985 – Yul Brynner played his famous role as the king in The King and I in his 4,500th performance in the musical. The actor, then age 64, had opened the successful production on Broadway in 1951.
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March 5, 2012 – 290 days Until Baktun 12
Survivalist Tip: I missed posting yesterday’s survivalist tip, so here it is: don’t leave anything out! As you prepare for the apocalypse, start making a list of everything you’ll need. Whether you think you’ll be able to stay in your home, or you know you’ll be heading out on foot, just compose a complete and thorough written inventory of all your essential supplies. Even after things settle down, keep that list handy. Your descendants might need it for Baktun 13 – 26,000 years from now.
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Picture of the Day
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Quote of the Day
“An important statistic that I read once was that there’s a survey done of 12 year-olds that found at age 12, 25 percent of the students were unsure of their sexual orientation. But we know from surveys of the adult population that only maybe 2 to 3 percent of the adult population will actually identify as homosexual or bisexual. So you have this population of young people that left to themselves, 9 out of 10 would end up being perfectly heterosexual, but now with the politically correct environment in the schools, those kids are being told by their teachers and guidance counselors, ‘Well you are probably gay, you were born that way, you just have to accept it and embrace it.’”
– Peter Sprigg, of the Family Research Council who wants public schools to distribute “ex-gay” information.
In other words, it’s a vast left-wing conspiracy! Grab your guns and bibles, folks! Those damn queers are on the rampage again!
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