Just make sure nobody owns a rabbit at the home where you are enjoying those Raisinets (TM).
After subpoenaing the names and addresses of AIG bonus recipients, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo convinced many said recipients to return the cash (about $50 million dollars, give or take.) Unfortunately, the AIG executives in Britain are basically ignoring Cuomo's populist hardball, given the relative lack of outrage in their country.
But Cuomo announced that nine of the top 10 bonus recipients will return the money! And 15 of the top 20 in the financial products division.
You may ask - what about the $80 million that went to foreigners, and the $35 million in unreturned U.S. bonuses. Mr. Cuomo would like the Americans holding the latter money to know he is conducting a "risk assessment" about releasing their names/addresses. So don't put those pitch forks and torches away just yet.
It's also World Tuberculosis Day, commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus (also it is supposed to remind people that tuberculosis still remains an epidemic in much of the world.)
But weighing that with the the celebration of raisinets, I went with the chocolate.
March 24, 1951
Scent-Imental Romeo, another funny Looney Tunes short starring Pepé Le Pew, is released on this date.
Today in History:
March 24, 1401 -
Tamerlane conquered Damascus. Tamerlane (Timur the Lane) was a descendant of Ghenghis Khan, and one of the greatest Tater leaders ever, expanding the Mongol empire from the Pacific to the Meditterranean.
Tamerlane is best remembered for having built pyramids out of human skulls, owing to a faulty understanding of architecture which no one ever had the courage to correct.
March 24, 1874 -
Harry Houdini, magician, escape artist, was born on this date.
He is still working on perfecting his final trick of coming back from the dead.
March 24, 1895 -
Arthur Murray, American dancer who founded dance schools, proving to millions of Americans that they have no innate sense of rhythm.
March 24, 1973 -
Lou Reed's ass bitten onstage by rabid fan (and not a fan with rabies) in Buffalo.
I wonder if you can get a contact high from ass biting.
March 24, 1989 -
Cold Fusion is announced. To celebrate this amazing advancement in energy, Captain Joseph Hazelwood downs, in rapid succession, five double vodka on the rocks and pilots the Exxon tanker Valdez,
into a well-charted reef at Prince William sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil.
And so it goes
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