Miss America 2011 Wants You to Taste the Pigskin
Here’s Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, holding an NFL football last night just minutes after being named to her new post.
Biographies
Miss America 2011 Biography (with Photos)
Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, exults as she receives her crown in Las Vegas on Saturday night, 15 January. She’s only 17 years old.
Splitsville for Zsa Zsa Gabor and Her Fibula
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s right leg has gone the way of her first eight husbands. Gabor and the leg were formally separated on Friday.
Stocking Up on Penguins for Christmas 2011
Our own Mr. Duffy recommends the Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection. 1,082 titles, “all great works of literature totaling nearly half a million pages,” from Shakespeare to the great Somerset Maugham.No, they’re not digitized: it’s actual paper copies, shipped on your very own 750-pound pallet.Per Kottke:
Charles Nelson Reilly Isn’t Quite 80
Charles Nelson Reilly would have turned 80 today, had he not died in a few years back, alas. He was born on this day in 1931.
Barack Obama’s Tucson Speech – Transcript
President Barack Obama spoke in Tucson yesterday after the shooting that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Here is the transcript of President Obama’s speech, given at McKale …..
Rush Limbaugh Needs Your Attention
Radio personality Rush Limbaugh turns 60 years old today.
Happy birthday, Rush!
We’ll say it again: Happy birthday, Rush!
We’re saying it twice because Rush Limbaugh needs the attention. Here’s how we know — he quotes himself:
“Over the weekend, Sarah Palin was responsible for the shooting. Now it’s me.” Really?
Fred Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church and Tucson
As if crazy religious zealots don’t have a bad enough reputation…
Along comes Westboro Baptist Church patriarch-coot Fred Phelps, Sr., who has jumped into the middle of the Tucson, Arizona shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a lunatic spree that left six people dead.
Alain LeRoy Locke’s Birth Date
Who2’s biography of African-American editor, philosopher and educator
Dashiell Hammett + 50 Years
Mystery writer Dashiell Hammett died on this day 50 years ago.