WTF Is It Now?!?

Hot hot hot. Had to go out and water the beets 'n' carrots, and the stray cats were just laying around under the shrubbery looking crabby.

Word of the Day: Salubrious - After being stuck at the White House for two whole days, Squinty McSimpleton hoped that the fresh air of his pig farm, the Lazy W, would have a salubrious effect on his moral clarity.


Today in History

Shortly before sunset in 1651, two English country women saw, in the sky, a battle followed by angels of 'a bluish colour and about the bigness of a capon, having faces like owls. Ninety years earlier, on 14 April, a large number of 'plates', 'blood-coloured crosses', and 'two great tubes' stages an aerial dog-fight, enthralling and frightening the whole population of Nuremberg.

1789 President-elect Washington left Mount Vernon, Va., for his inauguration in New York. Some 213 years later his grave-spinning began.

1943 Dr Albert Hoffmann took the first LSD trip ever.
1945 U.S. troops reached Nuremberg, Germany, during the World War II.

2002 disgraced rep. James Traficant (extinct-DINO, Ohio), wearing a dead beaver on his head, was warned by the House ethics committee "in the strongest possible terms" not to vote on the House floor while lawmakers review his recent conviction on racketeering and other charges.


Quotes of the Day
"Chatterbox felt certain that a book aimed at stiffening America's spine to fight a war would relate the story of [William] Bennett's own failure to serve in the military during the Vietnam War." - Timothy Noah, at Slate.com

"Who is Al Gore? The man who got cheated out of the presidency by Bush and the right wing Supreme Court." - Paul Begala on Crossfire

"Not like Bush running off and hiding out in Texas at his ranch during an international crisis." - Begala again

"Maybe one day soon a li'l ol steel magnolia will march up the White House steps, brush aside those Secret Service hunks, sweep into the Oval Office, dump tomes on that glistening desk, and lecture Georgie on the dangers of being such a pompous dunce. Hopefully, one of those books will be a copy of the US Constitution, now under siege by both terrorists and the protectors of the people. Maybe Georgie, now that he's in between sophomoric speeches, could be stirred into studying the real things that make his country great" - Inday Espina-Varona, in the Manilla Times, thanks to Buzzflash.

"Listen carefully to the news headlines this week, and you will hear it: the drip, drip, dripping noise of America's prestige-and the reputation of America's secretary of state- dwindling away in the Middle East." - Anne Applebaum, in Slate



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