The Daily Dose/January 31, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
USA! USA!: Lost in the cacophony of President Trump’s executive order barrage is this bigger-picture thought:
America is facing its biggest internal threat since the Civil War.
Get Out Your History Books: Back then, the enemy was ignorance.
Back To The Future: Today, the enemy remains ignorance.
Dry, Technical Matter: In the 19th century, ignorance convinced people that keeping fellow humans in bondage was right. Today, it is ignorance that sold people the idea that Donald Trump is qualified to lead our country.
A House Divided…: There was a time when slavery – now universally condemned – had its defenders, including a vice president of the United States, John Calhoun, who called slavery “a good…a positive good”.
A House Still Divided: Now, the president of the United States is a convicted felon, a lying, ignorant sexual predator who believes the moon is part of Mars and that the US must possess Greenland. He is ignorance personified and now, because we’ve twice elected him president, America is ignorance personified.
This Just In: We’ve always felt there was a time when both the US media and citizenry would’ve rejected Trump and ignorance of this magnitude. That time has passed, though and the media embraced Trump. Nevermind he blathered witlessness off the top of his head; Trump meant ratings and clicks, so the media heralded how he was changing the narrative so, instead of dismissing him, they escorted him directly into the primaries, the nomination, and the White House.
The Bottom Line: Abraham Lincoln once said America could never be defeated from without, only from within. It’s happening now. We are a country that is not only believing the lies Donald Trump tells us, but we are also beleiving the lies we are telling ourselves. We deserve better than this, but we didn’t elect better than this. We elected lies and ignorance; we deserve everything we get the next four years.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Today’s Diary entry is on the house.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a leisurely night at the hospital. Today’s Diary.
In fact, we got so much done when we wandered into the security office (SO) at 0630 we only half-jokingly told Asher that it would be nice to be able to relax and do some security work for the last four hours of the shift…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1606 – Guy Fawkes and three others are executed for treason for a planned revolt by English Catholics to kill King James I and blow up the House of Lords. The attack had been planned for the Nov 5 state opening of Parliament, but an anonymous letter to a member of Parliament betrayed the plotters and Fawkes, and others, were arrested at the House of Lords, Fawkes guarding a stash of gunpowder. History refers to the incident as the Gunpowder Plot and to this day a ceremonial inspection for gunpowder is conducted before the opening of Parliament.
In 1901 – The Winnipeg Victorias of the Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) win the Stanley Cup with a 2-1 overtime win over the Montreal Shamrocks of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) in Montreal to sweep the series in two games. It was the second of three Stanly Cup wins for the Victorias and remains the only Cup loss for the Shamrocks to go with two wins. Winnipeg would lose the Cup following a challenge by the Montreal Hockey Club the following year, with the challenge era ending after the 1913-14 season.
Editor’s Note: this item first appeared in 2019.
In 1976 – Earth Wind and Fire is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul Singles chart – for the second of two non-consecutive weeks with Sing a Song. The song was the groups second of eight #1s on the soul chart and it also peaked at #5 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Earth Wind and Fire had a total of 19 Top 10 singles on the soul chart between 1974 and 1988
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence – that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Rich Girl was the first #1 song on the Hot 100 for Daryl Hall and John Oates. It spent two weeks at #1 in 1977.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the first team not from Montreal or Winnipeg to win the Stanley Cup? – Answer next time!
