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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
The Trump/Musk firehose of folly continues, and it’s impossible to review all but the most egregious outrages here. The Associated Press, NBC, Aljazeera, and The Guardian are my picks for keeping up to date. Check out one or two, take a look, and come back here when you’ve had enough.
As if the man-made catastrophes in Washinton, DC aren’t enough, a big March storm system threatens US with tornadoes, blizzards and wildfire risk.
Printers are spitting out nonsense after a borked Windows update. “…if you update Windows while your PC is plugged into a USB printer, it might start printing a bunch of random text. It’s like you got a fax from a ghost stuck in 1996.”
North Carolina GOP town hall gets rowdy as attendees hurl scathing questions on Trump. About 300 people crammed inside a college auditorium for the town hall, while the boos from more than a thousand people outside the building rumbled throughout the event.
CAT scans ‘routinely’ deliver excess radiation, may cause 36,000 cases of cancer a year.
A cheap daily supplement appears to boost brain function in older people. Maybe we can sneak it into someone’s daily Diet Cokes.
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KGB Quote of the Day:
“You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.”
--Michael Caine (Wikipedia link)
(More Michael Caine quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Among other things, today is- in no particular order of importance-
International Day of Mathematics
KGB REPORT STUFF! (Click on link) On This Day:
1592 – "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6.53am was the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358).
1743 – First American town meeting was held in Boston's Faneuil Hall.
1794 – Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1821 – African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in New York.
1885 – W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "The Mikado" premiered in London at the Savoy Theatre.
1900 – The Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
1904 – In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the US Supreme Court found the company violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, oil well blowout, created the largest accidental oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing an estimated nine million barrels.
1936 – First issue of the Federal Register was published. The first document published was an Executive Order that expanded the Cape Romain Migratory Bird Refuge in South Carolina.
1937 – Battle of the Century: US comedians Fred Allen and Jack Benny met on radio during their "feud".
1942 – Anne Miller became the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
1950 – FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program began.
1958 – Recording Industry Association of America certified its first gold record - Perry Como's single "Catch A Falling Star"
1961 – A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed near Yuba City, California.
1964 – Jack Ruby was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. (Ruby's conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.)
1966 – “Born Free” premiered in the UK (Royal Film Performance) (Video)
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 – Barbra Streisand performed on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV .(Video)
1973 – Future US senator John McCain was released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
1983 – OPEC cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years.
1986 – European Space Agency's Giotto flew by Halley's Comet (596 km).
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Congress.
1992 – Soviet newspaper "Pravda"ceased publication.
1995 – Norman Thagard became the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
1995 – First time there were 13 humans simultaneously flying in space.
2006 – Mike Wallace retired from US news program "60 Minutes" after 37 years.
2018 – NASA twin study finds that after one year in space, seven percent of astronaut Scott Kelly ‘s gene expression had not returned to preflight state after six months on Earth.
Read for free with Kindle Unlimited! Quotes by or about persons born on this date (Click on link after name for quotes):
1879 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1928 – Frank Borman, American astronaut (d. 2023) (Video)
1933 – Michael Caine, English actor (Video)
1933 – Quincy Jones, American producer (d. 2024) (Video)
1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter (Video)
Other birthdays:
1959 – Tamara Tunie, American actress (Video)
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