"Exigo a me non ut optimis par sim sed ut malis melior"
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad. – Seneca
The villany you teach me, I will execute,
and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
–The Merchant of Venice,
Act III, Scene iii
Early voting in the NY Primary began today.
The mail delivered my voting notification this afternoon.
I'll vote tomorrow after Mass.
Paul Edward Lynde
June 13, 1926 – January 10, 1982
American comedian, actor, and game-show panelist.Paul Lynde
Q: "Why do motorcyclists wear leather?"
Lynde: "Because chiffon wrinkles."
Q: "In what state was Abraham Lincoln born?"
Lynde: "Well, like all of us; naked and screaming!"
🚨 Jan. 6 rioter and GOP candidate Tim Arvidson has allegedly shot and killed his neighbor.
He's been arrested for first-degree murder.
Saint Anthony of Padua, OFM
5 August 1195 – 13 June 1231
Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.
He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII on 16 January 1946.
Blessed Marianna Biernacka
1 June 1943 Nazis arrested Marianna's son Stanislaw and his wife Anna,and put them in the group to be murdered. Marianna pleaded to take the girl's place. Marianna asked to take one thing with her - a rosary. The mother and son were briefly imprisoned and then executed.
"Women like me. They think I'm wholesome or something."
Mary Wickes
June 13, 1910 – October 22, 1995
American character actress, who worked in both film and television.