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You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.
— Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), Justified, Season 4, Episode 1 (“Hole in the Wall”), original airdate 08 January 2013
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Today is Friday, October 14th, the 287th day of 2022. There are 78 days left in the year. It is Be Bald and Be Free Day, National Dessert Day, national lowercase day, National Chocolate Covered Insects Day, and World Standards Day.
On This Day
In 1884, George Eastman received a patent for his paper-strip photographic film.
In 1908, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the 1908 World Series. The team wouldn’t win another championship for more than a century.
In 1943, prisoners at Sobibor covertly killed most of the on-duty SS officers and then staged a mass breakout.
In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to exceed the speed of sound.
In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis began when an American reconnaissance aircraft took photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1968, the first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit was made by the Apollo 7 crew.
In 1977, Bing Crosby died of a heart attack after finishing a round of golf.
In 2012, Felix Baumgartner successfully jumped to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. His capsule launched from Roswell International Air Center in New Mexico.
In 2017, a massive truck bombing in Somalia killed 358 people and injured more than 400 others.
Today's Birthdays
Farah Pahlavi, the Shahbanu (empress consort) of Iran from 1959 to 1979, is 84. Attorney and former White House Counsel John Dean is 84. Fashion designer Ralph Lauren is 83. Biotechnologist and businessman Craig Venter is 76. Mouthpiece for D.C. groupthink Norman Ornstein is 74. Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is 61. Actress Lori Petty is 59.
The Links
A Look Back at the Demonization of the Unvaccinated (Michael P. Senger)
“According to Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, one of the most credible voices on the subject, Covid vaccines likely yielded benefits for the elderly and vulnerable, but it remains entirely unclear whether Covid vaccines have yielded any benefit at all for healthy adults and especially for children. Coupled with the still-unknown risks associated with mRNA technology and the now well-documented cases of death and serious injury from these vaccines, for governments across the world to have exerted extreme pressure on children and healthy adults to get these vaccines is absolutely sickening.”
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