March 24, 2026

25 Mar

 




                

Week 13  Day a Flag Today  72°/44°                             Wind 5 mph Gusts 5 mph

Active Fire: 132 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme   Nearest Lightning: 1646 miles away

Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine

Mar. Averages: Temps: 54°\24° Moisture: 12 days

 

Weekly Observations

22-28

International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
Consider Christianity Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week 
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3/22-4/4

Passiontide

22-28

Passion Week
World Optometry Week
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23-29

Shakespeare Week Link
25-31

National Farm Workers Awareness Week Link Link
National Physicians Week  
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Daily Observations

All Womens' Equal Pay Link 
International Balloon Animal Day
International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child 
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International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members 
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Little Red Wagon Day 
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Manatee Appreciation Day Link 

National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Equal Pay Day?  
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National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan Day
Tolkien Reading Day
World Math’s Day 
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Today’s Memes

 




Today’s Thoughts

A very nice spring day. I took off early for a blood draw. It went well. They all know me and greet me by name. Nice!

I just don’t understand…Trump has spent billions on deporting the worst of the worst immigrants. The administration believes this funding is going to continue. At the same time, the administration is looking for huge empty warehouses to buy and convert into immigration prisons. If deporting in the message, why do we need prisons? If we need the prisons because deporting is not working, then why do they keep asking for more money to deport? Is this administration going to keep spending and spending until the government is broke? We need answers yesterday. 

Real Hoaxes

The Salem “Witch Evidence” Spiral

This wasn’t one single forged artifact, but it functioned like a social hoax fueled by fear and accusation. Spectral "evidence" and rumors were treated as proof, and the claims multiplied because panic is contagious. It’s a reminder that communities can convince themselves of almost anything when anxiety takes the helm.

 

The “Balloon Boy” Hoax

In 2009, a Colorado family claimed their homemade helium balloon had accidentally lifted off with their young son inside. News helicopters chased it live, emergency teams mobilized, and the whole country held its breath until he was found safe at home. It later came out that the incident was staged by the family, who were desperate for media attention and money. 

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Historic Events

 March in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

Safety in numbers

Trail mix

Birthdays

Gene Shalit (100 years old), American book and film critic, and television personality (The Today Show. 1973-2010), born in New York City

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Gloria Steinem (93 years old)

American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine), born in Toledo, Ohio

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Tom Monaghan (89 years old), American founder of Dominos pizza, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Larry Weiss (85 years old), American songwriter ("Rhinestone Cowboy", "Bend Me, Shape Me", "Help Me Girl"), and singer, born in Newark, New Jersey

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Paul Michael Glaser (83 years old), American actor (Starsky & Hutch - "Der, Dave Starsky"), and director (The Cutting Edge; Las Vegas), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Elton John (79 years old)

English singer-songwriter and piano player ("Rocketman"; "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"; "Candle In The Wind"), born in Pinner, Middlesex

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Ethel Blondin-Andrew (75 years old), Canadian politician (first indigenous women elected to Canadian parliament and first cabinet minister), born in Tulita, Northwest Territories 

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Mary Gross (73 years old), actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds), born in Chicago, Illinois

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Marcia Cross (64 years old), American actress (Desperate Housewives, Melrose Place), born in Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Sarah Jessica Parker (61 years old)

1965 American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City), born in Nelsonville, Ohio

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Lark Voorhies [Holloway] (52 years old), American actress (Saved By The Bell - "Lisa"), and author, born in Nashville, Tennessee

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Wladimir Klitschko (50 years old)

1976 Ukrainian boxer (2-time world heavyweight champion; Olympic gold super-heavyweight 1996), born in Semey, Kazakhstan

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Joachim Murat (1767-1815; @48, shot—firing squad)

French soldier, Marshal of France and King of Naples (1808-15), born in La Bastide-Fortunière, France

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Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957; @89)

Italian cellist and conductor (La Scala, 1898-1908 & 1921-29; Metropolitan Opera, 1908-15; New York Philharmonic, 1926-36; NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1937-41 & 1944-54), born in Parma, Kingdom of Italy

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John Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mt Rushmore), born in St. Charles, Idaho Territory (d. 1941; @73, blood clots)

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Béla Bartók (1881-1945; @64, leukemia)

Hungarian pianistcomposer (Concerto for Orchestra), and ethnomusicologist, born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary

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Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Austrian-American Jewish scholar, theologian, and editor (The Loves of Franz Kafka), born in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1990; @86) 

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David Lean (1908-1991; @83)

English film director (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan's Daughter), born in Croydon, England

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Jack Ruby (1911-1967; @55, embolism)

American nightclub owner who murdered assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, born in Chicago, Illinois

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Howard Cosell, American sports journalist (Monday Night Football), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (d. 1995; @77, embolism)

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Eileen Ford (1922-2014; @92)

American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency), born in Manhattan, New York,

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Hoyt Axton, American songwriter, singer ("No No Song"; "Joy To The World"; "I've Never Been To Spain"), and actor (McCloud; Gremlins; The Rousters), born in Duncan, Oklahoma (d. 1999; @61, heart attacks)

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Anita Bryant, American singer ("My Little Corner of the World"), Florida orange juice spokeswoman, and anti-homosexuality campaigner, born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma (d. 2024; @84

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Aretha Franklin (1942-2018; @76, cancer)

American singer known as "The Queen of Soul" ("Respect"; "Think"; "Chain of Fools"), pianist, songwriter, and first female performer inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), born in Memphis, Tennessee

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…The End for today…

               

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