Straddlebug || Today

Birthdays
1808 - Jefferson Davis
1925 - Tony Curtis
1929 - Chuck Barris

Quote
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
-- Mort Sahl

History
1888 - Ernest L. Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner.

Events
Chimborazo Day reminds us that Ecuador's Equatorial mountain, Chimborazo, sticks further out in to space than any other point on earth.