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Speaking of books - "Reading is like permitting someone to talk for a long time, and refusing you the right to answer." - Edgar Watson "E.W." Howe, novelist and newspaper editor, b. 5/3/1853, Wabash County, IN

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Today, May 3rd, is the first Saturday of May, 2025 - And EVERY first Saturday of May is Independent Bookstore Day. Now and forever. We should be so lucky. www.bookweb.org/independent-...

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"Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance." - Nannie Helen Burroughs, educator, orator, civil rights activist, feminist, religious leader, and businesswoman,. b. 5/2/1879, Orange, VA

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Today, May 2nd, is International Scurvy Awareness Day. Nothing funny about it. It's not limited to cartoon pirates - It's still common in today's world, and can be found in food deserts and even faddish restrictive diets, including keto and low-carb. So, take your vitamin C.

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" I know there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery." - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor organizer, schoolteacher and dressmaker, b. 5/1/1837, Cork, Ireland

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It's May ! Yippie ! May is also

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“A civilization has the ethics it can afford.” - Larry Niven, American science fiction author, b. 4/30/1938, Los Angeles, CA

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This Day in History, April 30th: 1945: Backed into the corner of his bunker, the craven epitome of the human capacity for evil, Adolph Hitler, blows his filthy brains out. Drumph's got a bunker under the White House, doesn't he ? Because he imitates Adolph all the damn time. Here's to hope.

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“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.” - Ian Kershaw, English historian (Expert on Hitler and Nazi Germany), b. 1942, Oldham, Lancashire, England

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Today in History, April 29th: 1852: 1st edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus published. How hippopotamonstrosequipedalian of him.

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“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their own sovereignty. The people become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.” - James Monroe (# 5) b. 4/28/1758, Westmoreland County, VA

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Today in History, April 28th: 1947: Thor Heyerdahl sets out from Peru on the “Kon-Tiki”, and sails 4,300 miles across the Pacific to French Polynesia, demonstrating that “primitive” people could have traversed the oceans centuries earlier than suspected, thus colonizing the Pacific islands.

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“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” - Hiram Ulysses S. Grant (# 18) b. 1822, Point Pleasant, OH

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Today, April 27th, is Matanzas Mule Day – Honoring a mule that was killed – And buried with full military honors, including being wrapped in the flag of Spain – after the first U.S. Navy attack on Cuba during the Spanish-American War

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"Unless I'm sitting on your face, my weight is none of your business." - Attributed to Marie de' Medici, Queen Regent of France (1610-1617), b. April 26th, 1757, Florence, Italy

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1777: Ever hear of Sybil Ludington ? You should; On the same night as Paul Revere’s ride, the 16-year-old girl, half his age, allegedly rode twice as far, spreading the word of the coming British assault. Revere became a legend, she barely got a postage stamp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_L...

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“Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.” – William J. Brennan, Jr, Supreme Court Associate Justice, b. 1906, Newark, NJ

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Today in History, April 25th: 1792: A delightful new tool of the state, the “guillotine”, claims it’s first victim: A highwayman, Nicolas Pelletier. The crowd loved it, and begged for more. Ehhh, he doesn't look any worse than any of the January 6th "patriots".

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“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.” – Willem de Kooning, b. 4/24/1904, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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Fare thee well, Crocus Behemoth. We will not see your like again, and we are the poorer for it.

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“It is a curious thing, that when one speaks from the heart, it is invariably in the worst of taste.” – Ngaio Marsh, mystery writer and theater director, b. 1895, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Today in History, April 23rd: 1991: John Anthony Genzale, AKA Johnny Thunders, d. New Orleans, LA youtu.be/TknY89kECq0?...

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“Maybe it’s time that we use humor for political actions. If there’s a local politician against gay marriage, let’s send scary drag queens to his house to yell fashion insults at his wife.”- John Samuel Waters, Jr, emcee of the Apocalypse, b. 1946, Baltimore, MD

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Today in History, April 22nd: 1970: The first Earth Day is celebrated. Naturally, the Flat Earth Society throws a party, too.

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“The world, we are told, was made especially for man – A presumption not supported by all the facts.” - John Muir, the naturalist and wilderness preservationist who practically invented the concept of a national park, b. 4/21/1838, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland youtu.be/KwXuHRuvExc?...

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This day in History, April 21st: 1947: James Newell Osterberg, Jr – AKA Iggy Pop - b. Muskegon, MI youtu.be/AneJf_ao1kg?...

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"I believe that America, the world's strongest democracy, ought not be afraid of democracy. But we are." - Lee Hamilton, American politician and lawyer, U.S. Representative (Indiana, 1965-1999), b. 1931, Daytona Beach, FL

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Today, April 20th, is National Lima Bean Respect Day. No thanks. Wanna hear a recipe I stumbled across ? It’s for Lima Bean LOAF. I may well have a frequently horrible imagination, but it ain't half as bad as some of the the stuff in a Great Depression-era cookbook. As we may all soon find out.

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“A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.” - William Murray, British educationalist, writer of the "Ladybird" beginner's reading skills books (sold over 80 million copies), b. 4/19/1912, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

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Today in History, April 19th: 1927: Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in the slammer, for “obscenity” in one of her plays; The judge who sentenced her also dated her for eight of those days, and she was released two days early for “good behavior”. Riiiiiiight.

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“Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment because it is also a hope.” – Samuel P. Huntington, political scientist, adviser and academic, b. 4/18/1927, NYC, NY

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Today in History, April 18th: 1949: Ireland becomes a republic.

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“I think that we have reached the point where we can say, definitively, that Nazis are bad people.” – Jim Acosta, broadcast journalist, anchor and CNN correspondent, b. 4/17/1971, Washington, D.C.

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OF COURSE April 17th is National CHEESEBALL DAY. It matches Drumph perfectly, Loaded with fat, usually dyed orange, barely sentient, more than its fair share of nuts, and really, really bad for you.

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“The poor have to labor in the face of the majestic equality of the Law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.” - Anatole France, French poet, novelist and journalist, b. 4/16/1844, Paris, France

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Today in History, April 16th: 1846: The Donner Party hits the trail. Hilarity ensues.

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“The chief difference between us and the ancient Greeks is, that they were slowly learning what we are in the process of forgetting.” - Benjamin Jowett, Master of Oxford College, tutor, reformer, theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides, b. 4/15/1817, Camberwell, London, England

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Today, April 15th, is National Take A Wild Guess Day. Not created to coincide with it being the day your taxes are due, but you do you.

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"The only real struggle in the history of the world, is between vested interest and social justice.” - Arnold Joseph Toynbee, historian, historical philosopher and author, b. 1889, London, England

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Today in History, April 14th: 1865: Abraham Lincoln shot. Trump blames Biden, DEI and Zelenskyy.

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