#OnThisDay: April 15, 1912 – SOS, The Dogs of The Titanic

By Stephen Rutledge on April 15, 2021 9:30 am

April 15, 1912 - That famous luxury liner hit that damn iceberg 106 years ago, spawning: Atlantik (1929), a British early talking film starring Madeleine Carroll; a 1943 German propaganda film titled Titanic (1943), commissioned by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Doris Day

By Stephen Rutledge on April 3, 2021 3:03 am

April 3, 1922- Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff: "I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make … [Read more...]

On His Birthday Today, President-Elect Joe Biden is in the Dog House

By Stephen Rutledge on November 20, 2020 10:40 am

In a 2018 interview with The Los Angeles Times, Barbra Streisand, cuddling one of her cloned dogs, asked the question that many of us had been grappling with: "How does the president not have a dog? He's the first president in 120 years that doesn't have a dog in the White … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Writer, J.R. Ackerley

By Stephen Rutledge on November 4, 2020 3:03 am

Queenie and Ackerley, public domain November 4, 1896– J.R. Ackerley: "Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs." I love canines. Sometimes I feel a twinge of guilt that I like dogs more than people. I started collecting dog books around the time … [Read more...]

CNN Reporter Battles Rampaging Raccoon on White House Lawn

By James St. James on October 7, 2020 9:33 am

Of all the problems coming out of the Trump White House, I would have put "raccoon attacks" at the bottom of the list. But no. Violent, out-of-control raccoons seem to be a major problem there these days. CNN reporter Joe Johns just got into a major skirmish today with one on … [Read more...]

Viral Video OTD: Jesus Moose Runs on Water

By James St. James on October 1, 2020 11:49 am

All praise the Moose Christ! A viral video has emerged showing a moose running across a river – ON TOP OF THE WATER – and people are wondering whether it's photoshopped or real. Watch below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-0d00hV1c&feature=emb_title via[Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Tommy Tucker, the Cross-Dressing Patriotic Squirrel

By Stephen Rutledge on September 28, 2020 3:30 am

Smithsonian Archives September 28, 1942 - Tommy T. Tucker: "All I wanted was to slay for the USA!" Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to your homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment, with different feelings … [Read more...]