The Daily Dose/March 17, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Dartmouth – Usually staid Ivy League school at center of paying athletes imbroglio as guy basketball players vote to unionize…Sunday Bottom Pollsters “pretty sure” most college athletes don’t want to be school employees, but college sports make money and they’re entitled to their share of it.
2. Biden/Trump II: The Rematch – Coming this November to a ballot box near you, it’s Perpetual War vs. Perpetual Ignorance…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” no living American has ever had two worse choices for the presidency.
3. Mass shootings – The 3-hole staple…2024 mass shooting numbers – defined as a shooting with at least four (4) or more casualties – continue to trend lower, with only six (6) shootings, eight (8) deaths, 21 (21) injuries, four (4) arrests, this past week…With presidential election this year that will in no way be divisive or contentious, these numbers may well continue to decrease.
4. USA! USA! – Forget two elderly candidates starting to lose their marbles, biggest threat to US is almost 80 years of non-stop warfare…No nation has survived perpetual war and US will not be the first…We have until this half-century is out – maybe – to stop this before America implodes.
5. Joe Biden Fact Check – With Donald Trump Fact Check Desk still ramping up for 24/7 operation, President Biden takes misinformation cake this week, hardly for the first time…Click here…Courtesy of the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Yay for the return of Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow rakes in the cash. Today’s Diary.
We did make a $10 gratuity tonite, from this loud, clueless broad who pestered us for most of an hour…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1973 – A photograph featuring a former American POW reuniting with his family that would later win the Pulitzer Prize is taken at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. The photo was of Lt. Col. Robert Stirm with his family, led by 15-year-old daughter Lorrie, running toward him. Three days earlier, upon his release from captivity, Stirm had received a Dear John letter from his wife, who was also in attendance. The photograph was taken by Associated Press photographer Slava Vedder.
In 1876 – Marshall Brooks of Great Britain becomes the first man to jump higher than 6 feet, at a meet in Oxford, England. Brooks jumped 1.83 meters – 6 feet, 0 inches – to break the mark of 1.80 meters (5 feet 9 inches) he had established the year before, which was later tied. The current world record is 8 feet, .25 inches, by Javier Sotomayor in 1993.
In 1979 – Instant Funk is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul Singles chart – for the second of three non-consecutive weeks with I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl). It was the first of nine soul hits for the group, their first of three Top 40 soul hits, and remains their only #1. The song also peaked at #20 on the Hot 100 and went to #1 on Billboard’s disco chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I can be silenced, not by enemies, not by authority – but by my own comfortable indifference.
Morris West
The Clowns of God
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
There were twelve Gemini flights – ten manned – between 1965 and 1966.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 soul hit of 1979? – Answer next time!
