Archive for July 21, 2005

Is it just me …

or is Amazon sending its “free shipping” packages by mule train? According to their package tracking, a shipment ordered July 6 that left Denver July 12 still hasn’t shown up. Another left Cincinnati even earlier and it’s not here either.

Today, July 21

Don Knotts is 81 today.

Janet Reno is 67.

Edward Hermann is 62.

Robin Williams is 54. Williams has been nominated for the best actor Oscar three times without winning. He did win the best supporting actor Oscar for Good Will Hunting.

Jon Lovitz is 48.

Brandi Chastain is 37.

Ernest Hemingway was born on this date in 1899.

Best line of the day, so far

“The panel’s approach in this case leads to the result that regulating the taking of a hapless toad that, for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California constitutes regulating ‘Commerce…among the several States.’”

Judge Roberts, dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc in Rancho Viejo v. Norton (2003).