The Daily Dose/March 9, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

UP, UP, AND AWAY: An item in Sunday’s popular On This Date feature talked about the anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It disappeared less than three hours into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No one knows why. Some wreckage later washed up on India and other Indian Ocean islands, but no one knows why it disappeared. 

Cue Dramatic Music: It remains one of aviation’s most perplexing mysteries, right up there with the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. As usual, there are a variety of theories, including a murder/suicide by the pilot whose marriage was breaking up and who, hilariously, had a personal and professional calendar that was blank after March 8. Hijacking and terrorist theories are out there, too, though there do not appear to be too many that concern mechanical failure or fire. 

Flight Log: The flight took off at 12:42 am on March 8, and the last voice transmission was received 38 minutes later. The last radar contact, well off its intended route, was at 2:22 am, though satellite data shows the aircraft operational as late as 8:18 am. All 239 people on board died. Recovery efforts are still ongoing, with an American company looking, though they do not receive their $80 million fee unless they deliver the aircraft. 

Dry, Technical Matter: Amelia Earhart was an American pilot who disappeared trying to become the first woman to circumnavigate the planet, along with Fred Noonan. The leading theory is they ran out of fuel in the south Pacific, but neither their plane nor their bodies were ever found.  

The Bottom Line: Life’s funny. You play by the rules and try to build a good life for yourself, and then BOOM, some pilot gets their shorts in a knot (this is our favorite theory), and the next thing anyone knows, you’re going down with him. Ms. Earhart and Mr. Noonan were different: they were explorers, and explorers have been dying since someone first wondered what was over those mountains. Both, however, are examples of how the world is built: while most of us die in old age, not everyone does, and good luck picking out those who will. Enjoy today, and we hope you’re here to read tomorrow’s column

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow sees a lot of pretty girls in bathing suits. Today’s Diary. 

 …and we are such professionals we didn’t leave the indoor pool until they had all safely evacuated the indoor pool area.

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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it. 

Editor’s Note: due to time constraints, today’s items have run before. 

In 1842 – Six years before the California Gold Rush, gold is discovered in California, by Francisco Lopez, at Ranch San Francisco, a bit north of Los Angeles. The discovery – the first documented in California – produced a relatively minor gold rush, with an estimated 2,000 people converging on the area, and word of the discovery does not appear to have left Mexican territory.

In 1985 – Fat Lever of the Denver Nuggets establishes a new NBA record for most steals in a quarter in a 126-116 win over the Indiana Pacers. Lever had eight steals in the third quarter, breaking the record of seven established by Quinn Buckner of the Milwaukee Bucks on Nov 27, 1976, and Lever’s record still stands.  

In 1959- Frankie Avalon is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of five consecutive weeks with Venus. The song also went to #1 in Belgium, peaked at #16 in Great Britain, at #10 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s fourth biggest song of the year. It was the fourth of 13 Top 40 hits for Avalon, his third of seven Top 10 hits, and his first of two #1s (Why, one week, 1959). Avalon’s given name was Francis Thomas Avallone. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol I: Our Oriental Heritage

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

The Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Baltimore Bullets in the 1971 NBA Finals, four games to none. 

Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.

What was Billboard’s #1 song of 1959? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/March 8, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things. 

1. War With Iran – There is still no reason nor legal basis for this war. Congress hasn’t declared it as required by the Constitution, Iran wasn’t that much of a threat, there is no exit strategy – nor much of any strategy at all, and the worst part is gas prices are starting to rise…This is merely another Mideast war caused by the US that will leave nothing but destruction and resentment. 

2. Donald Trump and College Sports – Since there’t nothing else going on, President Trump has indicated he will prepare an executive order that will clean up college sports…One, executive orders do not make new law, only Congress can do that…Their purpose is to help implement exisiting law…Two, any plan of Trump’s will be typically witless…Three, the government must butt out of college sports. The NCAA got itself into this mess and they can get themselves out of it. 

3. USA! USA! – The 3-hole staple…America has thrown in the towel, now at its lowest point since slavery, governed by a man of no moral or intellectual substance…We have a Congress, a citizenry, and a media that is appeasing him…We are now a rogue nation that kidnaps and assassinates world leaders we don’t like and is currently involved in a war against a nation that is no real threat to us.

4. Daylight Savings Time – Good gravy, only four months of standard time nowadays?…This is stupid…Either go back to six months of each, or twelve months of one or the other…The current law makes no sense. 

5. Epstein Files: – They’re still there, with Donald Trump still mentioned at least 38,000 times…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters strongly suspect it is not because Trump was registering complaints against child sex trafficking.  

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow buys some new wipers. Today’s Diary. 

Longtime readers of this crap no doubt recall the general hilarity which attends ol’ Sparrow replacing wipers…It takes us forever, if we don’t quit beforehand…

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On This Date
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In 2014 – Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, service from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappears while over the South China Sea. The flight took off at 12:42 am; the last voice transmission was received 38 minutes later, and the last radar contact, well off its intended route, was at 2:22 am. All 239 people on board died, and the exact fate of the aircraft has never been determined, though some wreckage was later found on various shores on the Indian Ocean. 

In 1971 – The Milwaukee Bucks win the last of their NBA-record 20 consecutive games in a 104-99 win over the Seattle SuperSonics. The Bucks had broken the record of 18 consecutive wins established by both the Rochester Royals and the Philadelphia 76ers, and the streak ended the following night with a 110-103 loss to the Chicago Bulls. The record was broken the following season by the Los Angeles Lakers, who won 33 straight games. 

In 1975 – Bob Dylan is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with Blood on the Tracks. The album also went to #1 in Canada and New Zealand, peaked at #4 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 40th-biggest album of the year. It produced one chart single, Tangled Up In Blue, which peaked at #31 on the Hot 100. It was the second of Dylan’s five #1 albums. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

Humanity, patient under every cataclysm, renews its hope, takes courage, and builds once more.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol II: The Story of Greece

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

Switzerland has earned the most World Ice Hockey Championship medals without winning a gold medal with 13, five silver and eight bronze. 

Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.

The 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA title. Which team did they beat in the Finals? Answer next time! 

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The Daily Dose/March 7, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

USA! USA!: One thing we don’t think you can argue with is that America is a shell of her former self. The country that defeated slavery, that won World War II, that put men on the moon is gone. We don’t think this is for forever, though it has certainly left the building and America is a subtandard country now. 

Here We Go: There are examples every day. Here are a few of them, in no particular order:

• The only country to put humans on the moon cannot even put anyone into orbit anymore. 
• We are at war with Iran, a country that represented no real threat to us, a war that was not declared by Congress (as mandated in the Constitution), and a war with no clear strategy except dropping as many bombs as possible on them.
• Both our citizens and our government are fractured, partisan, and bickering messes. 
• The witless blather of a president whose self-named university was a boiler room and who is a man of zero moral or intellectual substance. He is governing us accordingly.
• The Congress, media, and electorate that, from day one, has appeased him instead of standing up and saying no to his lies, blather, and nonsense. 

Fly In The Ointment: More than anything, though, our continued tolerance of this idiocy is the biggest sign the American century has long been over. There was a time when America would’ve said no to Donald Trump, with both the media and the electorate dismissing him long before the 2016 primaries began. 

Dry, Technical Matter: Collectively, we can’t be bothered anymore. America is well-fed and well-entertained now. We are content and no longer striving for anything more than the remote, and the only people we hold accountable now are our DoorDash drivers. 

The Bottom Line: As George Carlin once said:

This species could have been so great, and now everybody just wants a new Salad Shooter or sneakers with lights in them. This is what we’ve settled for.

America and the world are paying the price. Instead of looking back at humans on Mars, we have federal troops in our cities killing our fellow citizens. Instead of a peaceful nation leading a more or less peaceful world, we’re kidnapping and assassinating world leaders. We have – maybe – before this half-century is out before we can no longer govern ourselves and someone comes in a does it for us. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow, Dave, and the police deal with a drunk at the hospital. Today’s Diary. 

He was a tad delusional, too, insisting that he’s “bond out” in a couple of hours, after which he’d supervise the firing of his arresting officers for gross misconduct… 

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On This Date
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In 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell receives US patent #174465 for the telephone. Bell had filed his patent application on Feb 14, a little after Elisha Gray had filed a patent caveat – a notice of an intent to file a patent application – and claims that Bell had stolen Gray’s idea were not upheld in court. The first telephone call was made three days later when Bell called his assistant Thomas Watson at Bell’s Boston laboratory. 

In 1954 – The Soviet Union wins the world ice hockey championship, defeating Canada 7-2 in the final game of the round-robin tournament in Stockholm. It was the first of 22 world championships for the Soviets before their dissolution and was the fourth of 16 silver medals for the Canadians to go along with 28 titles, a record. Sweden took the bronze medal. 

In 2015 – Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the eighth of 14 consecutive weeks. The song also went to #1 in 16 other countries – including Lebanon, South Africa, and Great Britain – was Billboard’s #1 song of both the year and the decade, and the 5th-biggest song of the Hot 100 era in a 2021 survey. It remains the only #1 song for Ronson and was the fifth of ten #1 songs for Mars 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

…his practice was either to confess his own ignorance or to conceal his own knowledge.
I.F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

The NBA record for fewest points in a game in the shot clock era is 119, a 62-57 win by the Boston Celtics over the Milwaukee Hawks in Providence, Rhode Island on February 27, 1955. The lowest-scoring game of all time is 37 points when the Fort Wayne Pistons defeated the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18 on November 22, 1950.

Today’s Stumper
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What country has won the most medals at the World Ice Hockey Championships without winning a gold medal? Answer next time! 

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The Daily Dose/March 6, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

USA! USA!: The United States Senate waved the white flag on Wednesday, surrendering to President Donald Trump by voting down a resolution that would’ve halted US military action in Iran without further Congressional approval. (The House followed suit on Thursday.) 

Stop Us If You’ve Heard This Before: It would’ve been funny if it wasn’t so humiliating: Congress willingly abrogating a power issued to them in the Constitution: Congress declares war. Not the president, not the UN, not your aunt in Duluth. Congress. 

Fly In The Ointment: By even considering a resolution of this sort, Congress embarrassed itself and reinforced what has been apparent for a while now: that Congress, along with the media and the American electorate, prefers to appease Donald Trump rather than tell him no. 

Get Out Your History Books: Why we appeased this man will be a mystery to future generations. His lies, nonsense, and witless blather should’ve been dismissed five minutes after he declared for the GOP nomination in 2015. It wasn’t, though. It was treated as real news and policy suggestions, and Trump was escorted straight to the primaries, the nomination, and to the White House.

FunFact: We’ve chosen to appease a witless blatherskite, someone accustomed to bullying and overpowering his way to what he wants. We elected idiocy, and we are being governed accordingly. 

The Bottom Line: We deserve better than this. We deserve a government that abides by the Constitution: a president who respects Congress’s power to declare war and a Congress that jealously guards it. We don’t have that now, and frankly, we haven’t had it since World War II, the last time Congress declared war. You and me – we the people – deserve better, but we are not going to get better until we start demanding it on Election Day. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a good day in the sack. Today’s Diary. 

We are still sleeping with the Tibetan music going, and we are noticing we are sleeping a tad more deeply and  that our dreams are completely whack now…

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On This Date
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In 1857 – The US Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott v. Sanford that the Constitution does not grant citizenship to Blacks. Scott was a slave whose owner had taken him into free states and territories, and when he was returned to Missiouri he sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had been freed when in free territory. The ruling upheld both federal and state court rulings and was later overturned by 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution. 

In 1982 – The San Antonio Spurs and the Milwaukee Bucks establish a new NBA record for most points in a game in a 171-166 Spurs victory in three overtimes. The 337 points broke the record of 316 set in March 1962, in a 169-147 Philadelphia Warriors win over the New York Knicks, the game in which Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points. The record is now 370, when the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 186-184 in three overtimes in December 1983. 

In 1961 – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles are at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B Sides chart – for the eighth and final consecutive week with Shop Around. It was the second of 24 Top 10 soul hits for the group, their first of four #1s, and the song also peaked at #2 on the Hot 100. The song was written by Robinson and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

I was educated in good schools – but life was my best teacher.
Ernst Weiss
Georg Letham Physician and Murderer

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

The Articles of Confederation was the governing document of the US before the Constitution. 

Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.

What is the NBA record for fewest points scored in an NBA game by both teams in the shot clock era? Answer next time!

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