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Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 15, 2014: Slim
pickings for holidays today, but did find these gems to celebrate:
1.
Tree Planting Day---If in Egypt not
Brooklyn.
2. Korean Alphabet Day (North Korea)--Maybe
Dennis Rodman can enlighten us on this one.
3. Wear a Hat Day--No comments on this other than to note American males stopped wearing fedoras after JFK delivered his inauguration speech in 1961 hatless.
On this day in:
a. 1870 Cartoonist Thomas Nash in Harper's Weekly portrayed
the Democratic Party as a jackass for the first time (no comment on why the
image stuck).
b. 1892 John Naismith published the rules for a new game involving
peach baskets and a ball--basketball (no dunks allowed for obvious
reasons).
c.
2001 Wikipedia went online (can you imagine a world without it
today?).
RIP door to door salesmen for Encyclopedia Britannica: “Wikipedia
is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to
create some.” Stephen Colbert, noted commedian and purveyor of
nonknowledge. For those of us graduating from high school prior to the
80's, a set was like a family's rite of passage.
Take five from the second full week of
work in 2014 and please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of
interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join
135 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my
blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs--click on
links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
for an original poem on a 17 year young Progeria victim who died on the eve
of becoming an honorary captain for the Patriots (have tissues handy)
and an original poem on 2013 in review just posted. Just posted
for your enjoyment on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com
poems on the "Constitution Free Zone" case to go to the Supreme
Court, on the book The Trident and courage of Navy Seals; and on
Cartels and funding risks pot growers and retail sellers in Colorado now
may face. In the works comment on the Imperial Presidency's power grab.
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