July 4th
Abbas Kiarostami, Post Malone, ‘Merica, Bob Ross, Neil Simon, John Waite, Barry White, Bill Withers
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Melissa Barrera, Michael Angelo Covino, Romain Gavras, Inara George, Rube Goldberg, Ágnes Hranitzky, Ron Kovic, Tracy Letts, Al Madrigal, Oren Moverman, Malia Obama, José Oquendo, Kirk Pengilly, Post Malone, Morganna Roberts, Eva Marie Saint, Neil Simon, Michael Sweet, Louis Wann, John Waite, Bill Withers, Beverly Yant, Andrew Zimmern
DEAD (R.I.P.): John Adams, William Byrd, Sanford Clark, Marie Curie, Eva Gabor, Thomas Jefferson, Abbas Kiarostami, Allen Klein, Pierre Lhomme, Steve McNair, Donald McPherson, James Monroe, Mark O’Brien, Astor Piazzolla, Bob Ross, Marliyn Sheppard, Jimmie Spheeris, Barry White - Michael Madsen (7/3/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: There is nothing to celebrate today.
EAT ME: Caesar Salad, Spare Ribs - Nathan’s Hot Dogs
HOLIDAY: Independence Day (Fourth of July)
HOROSCOPE: You should really try to live your life so that your happiness doesn't depend so much on whether or not they find the Higgs Boson Particle.
HOW-TO: Eat Competitively, Keep Your Pets Safe During Fireworks, Not Blow Off Your Fingers Off with Fireworks
JOKE: If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual, and someone who speaks many languages is multilingual, then what do you call someone who speaks only one language? An American - What's the difference between the U.S. and yogurt? If you leave yogurt alone for 300 years, it develops a culture.
THE ONION: Nation’s Dogs Vow To Keep Their Shit Together During 4th Of July Fireworks
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters (7/4/1995), INXS: Listen Like Thieves (1985), The Replacements: All Shook Down (1990)
Johnny Cash: American V: A Hundred Highways (7/4/2006), Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters (7/4/1995), Mission of Burma: Signals, Calls and Marches (7/4/1981), Yaz: You and Me Both (7/4/1983)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - INXS, Astor Piazzolla, The Replacements, Barry White, Bill Withers
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (7/4/1855) - Steve Schmidt: My patriotism requires me to dissent this July 4th, Abby Zimet: Designed To Enact Suffering
RELIGULOUS: The Decline and Fall of Christianity in America
SCIENCE!: NASA spots a new comet flying in from a distant star system
SHITASS: Jesse Helms, Thomas Jefferson, Michael Milken, Geraldo Rivera
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban
SPORT: Trump wants UFC fight on White House grounds
STREAM: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami (Criterion), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (HBO Max), Sinners (HBO Max)
New Film Releases (7/1-4): Divine Soldiers, 40 Acres, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Kill the Jockey, The Old Guard 2, To Give or Not to Give: Reparations for Slavery, Touch, The Twin, Videoheaven
Abbas Kiarostami Film Festival - Close-Up, Where is the Friend’s House?, And Life Goes On, Homework, Taste of Cherry, Through the Olive Trees, The Traveler, Case #1 Case #2, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, Certified Copy, First Graders, A Suit for Wedding, Like Someone in Love, Tickets, The Report, 24 Frames, ABC Africa
TRAVEL: Walden
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: House Republicans passed Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax-and-spending bill by a 218-214 vote after overcoming weeks of internal disputes and late-night negotiations to flip holdouts; the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill will increase the national debt by $3.4 trillion and lead to 11.8 million fewer Americans with health insurance coverage by 2034, while 3 million more would lose SNAP benefits; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delayed the vote with a record-breaking 8-hour, 44-minute floor speech, calling Trump’s signature legislation “an immoral document” that would “end Medicaid as we know it”; the U.S. economy beat expectations and added 147,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%; Trump made “no progress at all” with Putin about ending the war in Ukraine; and the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to deport eight foreign nationals to South Sudan.
WTF?!: This Is What Trump Paid El Salvador To Do To Kilmar Abrego Garcia - Sorry, you're about to read some things.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2025 - America is 249 years old today. Unless you consider the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which finally secured the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country. Which means that technically this country will be 59 years old this year if you buy into the “all men are created equal - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” bullshit. 2022 - Six people were killed and 36 others injured in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, during a Fourth of July parade. How American. 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. 1991 - I was at the last Replacements show in Chicago - until they reunited briefly 20 years later. 1977 - Frannie met Hank. 1976 - The Clash made their live debut opening for the Sex Pistols at the Black Swan in England. 1966 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act into law. 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announced his retirement from baseball. 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. 1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. 1845 - American writer Henry David Thoreau began a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
"Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." John Adams
"America will always do the right thing - but only after having exhausted all other possibilities" Winston Churchill
