The Daily Dose/October 16, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
USA! USA! Four years ago we said about candidate Donald Trump that if he won – a prospect generally dismissed in those simpler times – his administration would be as big a fiasco as his campaign was. From the start, Trump never really appeared to want the job; his campaign merely appearing to be an attempt for Trump to drum up some interest in himself, his only real talent.
Did We Call It, Or What?: So the past four years have not been a surprise. We knew Trump was a liar and was delusional and lacked a long-term plan for both himself and the country but we elected him anyway. Far from making America great again, America remains a partisan, fractured and bickering mess, halfway between the influence it once had and the oblivion that awaits her, probably before this half-century is out. Trump remains a lying sexual predator who believes the moon is part of Mars.
Dry, Technical Matter: These are three tidbits no one can argue with. You can ignore them, but you can’t argue with them: Trump lies daily, he admits to grabbing women by the pussy and he once said the moon is part of Mars, even though your nephew in third grade knows this is false.
FunFact: Both American and the GOP deserve better than Trump, but no one has demanded better yet.
The Bottom Line: We can demand better November 3rd. This country is only going to right itself when participating and demanding, concerned and conscientious citizens take charge on Election Day. We deserve better than the inept, partisan, fractured and bickering government we have now, but we have to demand it at the ballot box.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Master Tailor Sparrow swings into action.
I have a long history of hemming my stuff, none of it good…
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Maria in PBX reports she had a talk with her boyfriend.
Maria reports she had a Talk with her boyfriend this week. It was an official Talk, too – the type women are good at and which can be referred to at need later in the relationship – and as a result Maria reported said boyfriend is now behaving himself which he wasn’t for a while.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1869 – A hoax History refers to as the Cardiff Giant begins, with the discovery of what will be passed off as a ten-foot petrified man in Cardiff, New York. The ruse was the brainchild of one George Hull who created it and had it shipped to the farm of a cousin and the creation was discovered by two men hired to dig a well where it had been buried. The Cardiff Giant was so successful P.T. Barnum – after failing to purchase it – made a replica and Barnum being Barnum, he then claimed his was the original and Hull’s the fake. Hull admitted to the fraud in December.
In 2005 – The Chicago White Sox win their first American League pennant since 1959, defeating the California Angels 6-3 in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. The White Sox won four straight games after losing the opener and would go on to win their first World Series since 1917 by defeating the Houston Astros, who were then in the National League. In their last World Series appearance in 1959, the White Sox had lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games.
In 1982 – Dolly Parton is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with I Will Always Love You. Parton, who wrote the song, had also hit #1 with the song in 1974 and Parton remains the only act to go to #1 on the country chart with the same song in separate chart runs. The song also peaked at #53 on the Hot 100 in 1982. In 1992 a version by Whitney Houston spent a then-record 14 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 and eleven weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, making I Will Always Love You one of the few songs to hit #1 on all three major Billboard singles charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Who knows through what door wisdom will walk?
Gore Vidal
Julian
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The major league record for most consecutive postseason games won is twelve, done twice, both by the New York Yankees, first from 1927-28, and 1932 and then in 1998 and 1999.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What man prompted Dolly Parton to write I Will Always Love You? – Answer next time!
