“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.” — Grover Cleveland, 1905
Perspective
Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990.
Of the “pale blue dot,” astronomer Carl Sagan said, “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
Exception Paradox
If every rule has an exception, then there must be an exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
Love American Style
The Playboy Mansion is the only private residence in Los Angeles with a fireworks permit.
Unquote
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” — Will Rogers
Purple Rain
The sky isn’t blue. It’s actually violet, but a quirk of human vision makes us less sensitive to those wavelengths.
Hello, Goodbye
Individually and as a band, the Beatles have appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone more than 30 times.
The Hard Way
In 1896, New Jersey clam diggers Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo decided to make a name for themselves by rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. On June 6 they set out from the Battery in an 18-foot oak rowboat with a compass, a sextant, and a copy of the Nautical Almanac. They reached England’s Isles of Scilly in 55 days, a record that still stands.
Ironically, on the way home their passenger steamer ran out of coal. The pair launched their boat and rowed back to New York.
The Eyes Have It
Decide which direction each of these men is looking in. Then cover their lower faces.
In a Word
acapnotic
n. a nonsmoker