Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The National Park Service …
was established on this date in 1916. Legislation enacting the service set the director’s salary at $4,500 a year.
Archive for August 25, 2004
The President of the United States …
has absolutely no class.
Or as Steve Gilliard puts it:
Yes, this was a campaign stunt, and yes, Cleland has his own grudges against these people, but a real man would have invited Cleland and Rassman up to the ranch house, gave them some sweet tea, taken the letter and let them go.
This wasn’t some guy off the street. It was a former United States Senator delivering a letter from other senators. It was going to generate publicity one way or the other. Why not have some savoir faire?
3 CommentsBest line of the day, so far
“[B]each volleyball, which has as much to do with the original Olympic Games as Jenna Jameson does with Aphrodite.”
Love wins out
Julia Thorne, the first Mrs. Kerry:
When she was interviewed for the Washingtonian story [1996], Thorne said she didn’t want to get married again. However, she hadn’t totally soured on love.
“I went to a Wyoming ranch every summer and one year a man came out in the ranch truck to meet me. I saw him and I thought: ‘This man looks like a middle-aged hippie alcoholic.’ And he looked at me and thought: ‘She looks like a bitch on wheels.’ And we’ve been together ever since.”
Thorne and her husband, Richard Charlesworth, now live in Montana.
From Washingtonian Online. Link via Makes Me Ralph.
Born on this date …
in 1916, actor Van Johnson.
in 1917, actor Mel Ferrer.
in 1918, composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein (d. 1990).
in 1919, Alabama governor George Wallace (d. 1998).
in 1921, deal-maker Monty Hall.
Regis Philbin and Tom Skerritt share this birthday. They were born in 1933.
Kobe who?
From Morning Briefing:
According to Internet search engine Lycos, Kobe Bryant has lost the top spot on the list of most-searched athletes on the Internet. The new No. 1 is U.S. Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard.
Bryant dropped to sixth. Nos. 2-5: Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina, U.S. high jumper Amy Acuff, U.S. gymnast Carly Patterson and tennis player Anna Kournikova.
Nothing like scantily clad female Olympians to divert attention from a sexual assault case.
Walt Kelly …
was born on this date in 1913. The tribute to Kelly at The International Museum of Cartoon Art Hall of Fame reads:
Like a number of other successful newspaper cartoonists of his day, Walt Kelly learned his craft as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios between 1935 and 1941, and the Disney style was always evident in his work. After a brief stint as a comic book artist and an editorial cartoonist, Kelly launched his masterpiece, Pogo, in 1949. The strip featured a colorful cast of furry and not-so-furry creatures who inhabited the Okefenokee Swamp, including Pogo, Albert, Howland Owl, P.T. Bridgeport, Beauregard and Churchy la Femme. Out of the mouths of these innocent animals came everything from profound musings on the human condition to downright nonsense. The superb artistry, satirical humor and playful language of Pogo enchanted millions of readers and even now, years after his death in 1973, Kelly still has a loyal following.
According to the web site I Go Pogo:
Walt Kelly first used the quote “We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us” on a poster for Earth Day in 1970. … In 1971, he did a two panel version with Pogo and Porky in a trash filled swamp.
A classic Pogo strip is published each week at Welcome to Pogo’s Website!
Sexy codger
Sean Connery is 74 today.
