"My baseball game was rained out....now I know what living through Katrina was like"

ok, this is just plain funny

The other day, a House Republican from Michigan (Pete Hoekstra) put out a Tweet that compared the Iranian election protests to the way Republicans struggled against the Democratic leadership in the House last year.

Here's the (now infamous) Twitter page


Thanks to the heroes of the internet, that simple message has become the inspiration for a blog that compares user's everyday minutiae to important historical people/events. It's definently worth a quick look.