Good morning.
A sunny Thursday with a high of forty-four awaits.
Over at the Washington Post, they’ve an annual contest in which readers submit Peeps candy dioramas. This year’s winner of the seventh annual contest was Rest in Peeps:
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Peep
Zero Peep Thirty
Peep’s Chili Bowl
In Wisconsin history on this day in 1954, a recall campaign begins (but later falls short):
1954 – McCarthy Recall Campaign Begins in Sauk City
On this date, “Joe Must Go,” a bipartisan grassroots campaign to recall Sen. Joe McCarthy from the Senate, began in earnest with an organizational meeting in Sauk City. The campaign had to collect 403,000 signatures in 60 days to force a recall election. With little money, a hastily thrown together organizational structure, and unenthusiastic or non-existent support from existing organizations (including farmers and organized labor), the group was still able to secure 335,000 signatures. Later in 1954 Sen. McCarthy was publicly censured by his Senate colleagues. [Source: The History of Wisconsin, v.6: Continuity and change, 1940-1965 (Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973-1998).]
Google-a-Day poses a geography question: “What’s the southernmost province of the country that occupies approximately one sixth of the Iberian Peninsula?”