Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Other b-days commemorated this week:

• Albert Schweitzer -- here or here
  
• Benjamin Franklin -- here or here
  
• Moliere
  
• Luis Alvarez
  
• Cary Grant
  
• Auguste Comte
  
• Paul Cezanne

Deaths?
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Anais Nin, Vladimir Lenin, Lewis Carroll, Humphrey Bogart, and Rudyard Kipling.

Accomplishments?
Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Elizabeth I; Captain James Cook crosses the Antarctic Circle on the Resolution; Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India; Louis XVI loses his head; Giacomo Puccini's Tosca premieres in Rome; Pytor Ilyich Tchaikowski's Swan Lake premieres in St. Petersburg; and Henry Ford launches the assembly line concept.

Don't Give Up Hope

That people are stupid at least as much as they aren't is not in dispute. But, are they dumber in Paris? Perhaps if, say, Wm Tell and Penn & Teller were to breed, you might get these yo-yo's.

A tough act to follow, but Oklahoma gives it a good shot.

Well, humans may be dumb, but at least they're brave.

Sometimes.