Monthly Archives: July 2009

Today In History

Posted on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

July 20, 1969 - With more than one billion people watching the event on television, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon.  At the end of his moon walk, Armstrong demonstrated the moon’s weaker gravitational field by shanking a golf ball into a crater more than three miles away. NASA, unhappy about the stunt at the time, is planning a return trip to the moon in 2015 to retrieve the lost ball.

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Today’s Epigram

Posted on July 16, 2009 | Leave a comment

“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”

-Edgar Allen Poe

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Today’s Poem By William Stafford

Posted on July 13, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Tomorrow will have an island. Before night
I always find it. Then on to the next island.
These places hidden in the day separate
and come forward if you beckon.
But you have to know they are there before they exist.

Some time there will be a tomorrow without any island.
So far, I haven’t let that happen, but after
I’m gone others may become faithless and careless.
Before them will tumble the wide unbroken sea,
and without any hope they will stare at the horizon.

So to you, Friend, I confide my secret:
to be a discoverer you hold close whatever
you find, and after a while you decide
what it is. Then, secure in where you have been,
you turn to the open sea and let go.

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Today’s Latin Phrase

Posted on July 13, 2009 | Leave a comment

“Abbas torqueo novus pera.”

Papa’s got a brand new bag.

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Today’s Palindrome

Posted on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment

Tulsa nightlife: filth, gin, a slut.

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Today In History

Posted on July 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

July 11, 1635 – The armies of Savoye, Mantua and Parma occupy Milan. Generals Dolce and Gabbana, noting the locals are not well accessorized, set up camp and begin planning a line of handbags.

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Today’s Anagrams: Silvio Berlusconi

Posted on July 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

Anagrams for Silvio Berlusconi:

Uncoil Bile Visors

Visible Colour Sin

Bores Uncivil Soil

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Today in History

Posted on July 10, 2009 | Leave a comment
July 10, 1926 – Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. Scopes requested a two hour recess, telling the judge “your honor, in all the excitement, I forgot to bring my monkey.”

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Today in History

Posted on July 9, 2009 | Leave a comment

July 9, 1401 – Mongol warlord Timur Lenk destroyed Baghdad. “The food is good, the women are fair, but the sheep are incredible,” said Lenk.

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Today’s Epigram

Posted on July 8, 2009 | Leave a comment


Poets aren’t very useful
Because they aren’t consumeful or produceful.

–Ogden Nash



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Today’s Epigram

Posted on July 7, 2009 | Leave a comment

The more time you spend staring at your screen, the greater your human capital dividend will be.

–Tyler Cowen, economist

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Today’s Latin Phrase

Posted on July 7, 2009 | Leave a comment

“Oh, eram ego confestim muneris? Ego ero non pensio intensio.”

Oh, was I speeding officer? I wasn’t paying attention.

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Today’s Epigram

Posted on July 6, 2009 | Leave a comment

“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

–Edgar Allen Poe

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Today In History

Posted on July 3, 2009 | Leave a comment

July 3, 1187 - The Crusaders entered Tiberius. Tiberius was not happy at all about it.

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Today’s Oxymorons

Posted on July 3, 2009 | Leave a comment

Death Benefits

Live Recording

Religious Education

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Today’s Anagrams: Healthcare

Posted on July 3, 2009 | Leave a comment

Anagrams for “Healthcare”

Ah, Cartel, Eh?

He Halt Care

A Hale Retch

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Today’s Poem

Posted on July 2, 2009 | Leave a comment

You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed I’m your dear little ear,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.

–Rogers and Hammerstein

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