“If you had May 22 in your office’s ‘What day will John McCain play the Obama can’t be President because he didn’t get shot down flying a plane’ pool, you win”
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“TSA announces plan to streamline security checkpoints by allowing passengers to leave laptops in special, Targus or Skooba-designed bags. This announcement brought to you by Targus and Skooba, for all your laptop needs”
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Nearly 500 Californians have lost their lives while in service to their country in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least 58 were immigrants; more than 160 were parents, who left behind more than 300 children. One descended from two presidents; another was a Guatemalan street orphan taken in by an American family as a teenager. One high school lost six of its graduates.
The above from an article in the Los Angeles Times describing a study by the paper to be published Sunday.
“He was Mexican, but he thought like an American. And he gave his life for this country.”
Capitalizing on Senator Larry Craig’s restroom bust, a Minnesota minor league baseball team this Sunday is giving away a promotional item celebrating the Republican politician’s arrest last year at the Minneapolis-St.Paul airport. Dubbed a “bobblefoot” (as opposed to a bobblehead doll), the polyresin giveaway depicts an occupied bathroom stall (the inhabitant’s pants and shoes can be seen below the stall’s panels). When the St. Paul Saints’s “bobblefoot” is shaken, one of the spring-loaded feet taps. The keepsake, which will be handed out to the first 2500 fans attending the Saints’s May 25 game against the Fort Worth Cats …
Click on the link for photos of the “booblefoot.”
The high temperature here Monday was 92ºF, Tuesday 94º and yesterday 90º.
Right now, just before 10AM, it’s 52º. Update: 11:10 AM 49º.
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“[A] court striking down a law supported by large majorities is not antithetical to our system of government. Such a judicial act is central to our system of government.”
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Investigative reporting forced Denver, Colorado to lengthen the yellow at four city intersections where red light cameras are to be installed. In late March, the Rocky Mountain News uncovered how these intersections had quick, three-second yellow times that fell short of recognized engineering standards. Drivers will now enjoy up to two additional seconds of warning at some intersections by the time automated tickets start landing in the mail on June 10.
Follow the link for details on the four intersections. Lengthening the yellow at one Fort Collins intersection by one-second reportedly reduced the accident rate 30 percent.
One of my favorite lines ever — “Madrid [New Mexico] doesn’t have any traffic lights yet; there is one in the works, they just haven’t decided what colors they’re gonna use.”
“$4 gas is annoying. $8 gas, if it happens, will be… different.”
Atrios commenting on $135 a barrel and downward revisions in supply forecasts.
According to AAA, today’s national average price is $3.831 for regular, $4.068 for mid-grade, $4.214 for supreme, and $4.590 for diesel. If only I could have that 18.4¢ a gallon rebate from McCain and Clinton.
Update: That the gasoline tax rebate discussion has seemingly disappeared from Clinton’s repertoire is interesting, don’t you think? Kind of proves the pandering charge doesn’t it?
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“I want to say also that the press is to be commended — complimented — on the manner in which the program was explained to the country. I think the press made a great contribution toward informing the people of the United States — toward showing just exactly what the intention of the legislation is.”
President Harry Truman 61 years ago today after signing legislation providing economic aid for Greece and Turkey, as reported then in The New York Times.
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Mary Cassatt was born on May 22nd in 1844.
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was a unique artist because she was a woman who succeeded in what was in the nineteenth century a predominantly male profession, because she was the only American invited to exhibit with a group of independent artists later known as the Impressionists, and because she responded in a very distinctive way to their mandate to portray modern life.
Click images for larger version and to learn more.
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Peter Matthiessen is 81 today and Garry Wills is 74. The Writer’s Almanac has background on these two exceptionally insightful and important American writers.
You can hear Garrison Keillor’s audio of same by clicking here (RealAudio).
NewMexiKen has a first edition of Matthiessen’s wonderful and wonderous The Snow Leopard.
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Johnny Carson last hosted The Tonight Show 16 years ago today. The mental_floss Blog has “5 Memorable Moments from The Tonight Show.” Videos.
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