Celebration Excuse
Send a letter to your momma, because Indiana Jones just bought a Coke and Gandhi needs a sandwich. It’s May 8th, here’s why we’ve got a Mad Magazine hidden in our social studies text book:
1794
Get ready to go postal. The United States Post Office is established.
1914
Paramount Pictures is formed. Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible and the Brady Bunch all together in one film lot.
1933
Don’t worry, he had a big lunch before he started. Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest of British oppression in India.
1956
A troublemaker in need of orthodontia. Alfred E. Neuman makes his debut on the cover of Mad Magazine.
1961
New Yorkers choose “Mets” as the name of their new National League baseball team.
1985
Coca-cola releases “New Coke.” “New” tastes bad.
Happy Birthday:
Nuke-dropping President of the United States, Harry S. Truman (1884).
Lover of the free market and critic of communism and planned economies, Friedrich Hayek (1899).
Gravity’s Rainbow author and Cornellian (go big red!), author Thomas Pynchon (1937),
This guy wants us all to bailamos, singer Enrique Iglesias (1975).
Daybook
POTUS
President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visit Queen Elizabeth II at the British Embassy in Washington, DC.
PEOPLE
Vice President Dick Cheney heads to the Middle East for visits to United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.
Elizabeth Edwards is honored as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in an event at the Time Warner Center in New York, NY.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks to the Detroit Economic Club.
STUMPIN’
Tommy Thompson (R-WI) participates in a Politics and Eggs breakfast in Bedford, NH
Obama (D-IL) attends private fundraisers with Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) in Richmond, VA
HOUSE
10:30AM
House meets for morning debate.
10AM
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on “Use of Republican National Committee E-mail Accounts by White House Officials.”
10AM
House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee hearing on alternative fuels.
10AM
House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee holds markup to authorize 2008 Defense Deapartment appropriations, and to prescribe “military readiness strengths” for FY2008.
SENATE
Senate is in session.
10AM
Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on REAL ID. Allen Gilbert, executive director of the ACLU, testifies (among others).
WATCH MORE TV
Get Up Early
Regis and Kelly: Felicity Huffman, Joy Philbin, “The Amazing Race” winners Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner
Ellen: Lauren Graham, “American Idol” castoffs Phil Stacey and Chris Richardson, Bon Jovi
The View: Hayden Panettiere, Robin Thicke, guest co-host Sarah Ferguson
Stay Up Late
Stewart: George Tenet
Colbert: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Letterman: Jane Fonda, Tom Ruprecht, Kelly Clarkson
Leno: Matthew Fox, Larry the Cable Guy, Feist
Conan: Zach Braff, DJ Qualls, Jimmy Carr
Ferguson: Garry Shandling, Julianne Nicholson, Lynne Koplitz
Kimmel: Carmen Electra, the latest “Dancing with the Stars” castoff, Blake Shelton
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