Ruminations
OF THE DAY
July 22, 2024
QUOTE
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
BIRTHDAYS
1925 – Joseph Sargent, Actor, director, and producer
1934 – Louise Fletcher, Actress
1947 – Albert Brooks, Actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Don Henley, Singer-songwriter and drummer
1955 – Willem Dafoe, Actor
1964 – David Spade, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor
1934 – John Dillinger, Gangster
1967 – Carl Sandburg, Poet and historian
2008 – Estelle Getty, Actress
ON THIS DAY
1598 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
1937 – The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
June 26, 2023
QUOTE
The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the moral courage to do what they will say they will do when they’re running for election.
June 23, 2023
QUOTE
Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning’s cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.
June 21, 2023
QUOTE
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
June 18, 2023
QUOTE
A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be ‘He did very little harm’. And that’s not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.
June 16, 2023
QUOTE
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
