Where would Emergency Rooms be without them? Pretty short of laughs in a grim atmosphere is where, so let’s celebrate STUPID GUYS DOING STUPID THINGS DAY! Most males of the human species bear reminders or our less-than-finest moments, the various scars, mended bones and police records that […]
Read more →It’s nowhere near the middle of summer, those pavement and brain-melting days of early August, but ancient tradition demands we lay off the word “solstice” today, so as not to confuse us backward peasants into thinking we displeased some god or goddess of fertility or another, and […]
Read more →You really can’t run in them, but that’s one of the beauties of our favorite summer footwear as we celebrate NATIONAL FLIP-FLOP DAY! Called “thongs” before thongs became intimate apparel with strong comic associations, your rubber flip-flops are adapted from a simple sandal that has been in […]
Read more →“Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” There’s not many people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness that say that, and so we celebrate NATIONAL LOU GEHRIG DAY! One of the main Murderers in the 1927 Yankees’ batting lineup […]
Read more →It’s almost Summer, the days are pleasing and warm, Mother Nature is busting out all over, and there’s beauty everywhere you turn. Time to stop and smell the Honeysuckle on WORLD SAUNTERING DAY! What’s the rush? Sun’s shining, faces are smiling and the music of children’s laughter […]
Read more →Get out of Dodge! That was sound advice in the wild 1880s, when cowboys, money, whiskey and women turned many a drunken Spring Break into a fatal shootout, so today we mark NATIONAL DODGE CITY DAY! This is the 150th Anniversary of Dodge City’s first saloon opening, […]
Read more →On June 16, 1858, the campaign for the 1860 election that would make Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States was 2 years down the road, but it was his acceptance speech of the Republican Party’s nomination for United States Senator in Springfiled, Illinois that first put […]
Read more →The place was Runnymede, England, the King was John, the language of the document was Latin. Still, this was a world history-changing day for every nation, and we rightfully celebrate INTERNATIONAL MAGNA CARTA DAY! In what seems today like a grudging admission from a king that his […]
Read more →It was 244 years ago today, June 14, 1777, and our Revolution wasn’t going well. The British Empire was pretty much kicking Colonial butt and chasing the Continental Army across 3 New England Colonies. It didn’t look good for the rebels. Enter Betsy Ross with her 13 […]
Read more →“Lafayette, we are here,” said General John Pershing when the American Expeditionary Force landed in France during World War One. He was referring to a 140 year-old debt to France for the services of one of their generals, who we salute on NATIONAL LAFAYETTE DAY! Marie-Joseph Paul Yves […]
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