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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/25/23 – BLASÉ DAY
Well, ho-friggin’-hum, it’s a holiday weekend. No big whoop, this one. Nothing fails to get your blood racing like NATIONAL BLASÉ DAY. Being blasé means being unburdened from giving a tinker’s damn, a sweet release from the pressing concerns of everyday life and the greater world, at least for this one day. We wish we
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/24/23 – BUY NOTHING DAY!
Retailers call it Black Friday, most of us call it the day after Thanksgiving, but more and more of us are calling it NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY! The Friday after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day in the United States, kicking off our annual materialistic feeding frenzy that we call Christmas shopping, where we buy
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/24/23 – EVOLUTION DAY!
On November 24, 1859 a book was published that would change the world and the way we look at it, making today NATIONAL EVOLUTION DAY! Charles Darwin had spent years painstakingly researching “The Origin Of The Species,” the book that founded evolutionary biology. Originally released with the mouthy title “On the Origin of Species by
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/23/23 -THANKSGIVING
For a holiday that no religion can claim, it sure has a ton of rituals. Consider the almost universal Thanksgiving menu of the driest bird in the animal kingdom stuffed with bread mixed with the flesh of a far tastier animal, and surrounded by mounds and mounds of greens, starches, sweets, gravy and biscuits, followed
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/22/23 – SUN RECORDS DAY!
On this day in 1955, entertainment conglomerate RCA Victor made its best investment when they paid $35,000 to Sam Philips’ small Memphis record company for Elvis Presley’s contract, making today NATIONAL SUN RECORDS DAY! Everyone knows that Presley went on to become one of the most successful and recognizable entertainers of all time, but Sun
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/21/23 – TELEVISION DAY!
We criticize it, complain about it, yell at it and take it for granted, but we can’t ignore the squeakiest wheel in the house, and the reason we celebrate NATIONAL TELEVISION DAY! Whether you prefer Kimmel to Colbert, GMA to Judge Judy, or “Hard Core Pawn” over The Science Channel, our not-so-silent partner, Mister Television,