Good morning.
Thursday will be mostly sunny with a high of forty-five.
A post at Relevant reminds that sometimes a problem offers its own solution:
sometimes the very thing that causes your problems might also be the solution—in this case, a biker was knocked over by a speeding mattress, but also happened to land on that mattress where—according to authorities in Brazil, where this all happened, he was just fine. It all happens at about the 20 second mark …
On this day in 1854, activists found the Republican Party:
1854 – Republican Party Founded
On this date Free Soilers and Whigs outraged by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, met in Ripon to consider forming a new political party. The meeting’s organizer, Alvan E. Bovay, proposed the name “Republican” which had been suggested by New York editor Horace Greeley. You can see eyewitness accounts of the meeting, early Republican campaign documents, and other original sources on our page devoted to Wisconsin and the Republican Party. Though other places have claimed themselves as the birthplace of the Republican Party, this was the earliest meeting held for the purpose and the first to use the term Republican. [Source: History of Wisconsin, II: 218-219]
Puzzability‘s Irish Stew continues with Thursday’s game:
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This Week’s Game — March 17-21
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Irish Stew
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We’re going for brogue this St. Patrick’s Day week. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, added the seven letters in IRELAND, and rearranged all the letters to get the name of a famous person. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
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Example:
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Affirmative answer; Rescue Me star
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Answer:
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Yes; Denis Leary
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Yes; Denis Leary” in the example), for your answer.
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Thursday, March 20
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