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Happy Birthday, Everyone

Birthday Candles 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, playwright (d. 1593)
1665 – Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom (d. 1714)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati (d. 1811)
1756 – Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
1895 – Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948)
1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1912 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler’s mistress (d. 1945)
1913 – Mary Leakey, anthropologist (d. 1996)
1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor (“Tony the Tiger”)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
1931 – Rip Torn, actor, director
1940 – Tom Brokaw, news anchorman
1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician, (d. 1981)
1950 – Natalie Cole, singer
1951 РPrincess Daphn̩ of Belgium
1957 – Kathy Najimy, actress, comedian
1957 – Robert Townsend, comedian, actor, director, producer
1962 – Axl Rose, musician (“Guns N’Roses”)

And Massachusetts (my home state) became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788. Thanks to Wikipedia for the dates and references.

Phreakin’ Phil

Phil - Groundhog Day 2005 Curse you, Punxsutawney Phil! The “Prognosticator of Prognosticators” was rudely awoken this morning and, most likely out of spite, predicted six more weeks of winter. Granted, there are always six more weeks of winter from this point forward, but it’s fun to blame the cold and snow on something else. Especially if that something else is a marmot.

Tonight is the State of the Union speech by our beloved monkey president, which means that I’ll most likely catch the first twenty minutes and then tape the rest. In my opinion, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart coverage of the speech should be much more interesting than the speech itself. As a matter of fact, the Daily Show coverage of January’s inauguration speech was absolutely hysterical and served as a counterbalance to a speech that has been deemed a “vacuous … sermon” by Zbigniew Brzezinski from the PBS Newshour.

I’ll stop yapping now. I’m a Democrat who needs to mourn the loss and move on!

Before I forget, a new Red Sox Blog popped up today, and it happens to be a really good read. I recommend checking it out and taking a look at the photos that I (shameless plug) coincidentally took.