Today's Buzz: Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Posted February 12, 2008, 4:22 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Tuesday, February 12, 2008. There are 323 days left in the year and 266 days left until Election Day.

A-Block
Obama Favored in Today's Potomac Primaries (LA Times)
Huckabee Brushes Off Calls to Bow Out (AP)
Why You Might Live to 100 (ABC News)

B-Block
Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired (Developing Intelligence)
Man's '91 Pickup Passes the 1 Million Mile Mark (Yahoo News)
Cher Will Headline Caesars Palace, Vegas (Yahoo News)
Patty Hearst and French Bulldog Win at Westminster (The Canadian Press)

C-Block (By The Numbers)
The 10 Most Outrageous Car MSRPS (Jalopnik)
Seven Steps to Turn Your Self-Improvement Desires Into Reality (Zen Habits)

D-Block (Pic of the Day)
Three Water Balloons Shot by Bullet (bighugelabs)
40 Photoshopped Images (vertustech)

Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB member Mike Merrell! Click on his name to send him a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Sportscaster Joe Garagiola is 82. Basketball hall-of-famer Bill Russell is 74. Singer Gene McDaniels is 73. Actors Joe Don Baker ("GoldenEye") and Paul Shenar ("Scarface") are both 72. Author Judy Blume is 70. Actor and talk show host Arsenio Hall is 53.

On This Date:
In 1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded and becomes the nation's oldest civil rights organizations.

In 1914: In memoriam, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is put into place.

In 1924: Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on the radio.

In 1967: London police bust Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and his girlfriend at the time, Marianne Faithful, on drug charges. It is believed to be the beginning of the end for the Rolling Stones.

In 1999: President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

In 2000: Charles M. Schulz, creator of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip, dies at age 77.

In 2006: A record 26.9 inches of snow falls in New York's Central Park.

Today's Thought:

"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."
-- Charlie Brown



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