The Daily Dose/August 23, 2018
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
In The News
At least those that run Ohio State University are transparent. With the suspension, instead of, say, firing, of head football coach Urban Meyer, they’ve reinforced what we already know: that a winning football program trumps everything. Meyer produces playoff appearances and national championships and that’s what Ohio State has long demanded out of the men who run their football program.
A lesser coach, one that has not produced conference and national championships would have been fired. Any other employee would have been fired. Meyer should have been fired, too.
Lately in this space we’ve noted some institutions that should just go away, like the Republican Party and the Catholic Church. Let’s add the NCAA to that list. They are utterly incapable of running a major division athletics program that is not a complete and utter cesspool.
Don’t blame them, though. The fault is ours. We like our college sports, so we tolerate this crap and even enable it. When we demand better, we will get better.
Today At The Site
Sparrow spends most of the day playing with his loose tooth on today’s edition of The Diary of a Nobody. It’s coming out and being replaced soon enough, but the tooth is tough, still hanging in there when Sparrow called it a day. Also, there is a snitty customer at the retailer.
Len Deighton, one of our planet’s best spy novelists, has The Thought for the Day, a quote about how putting an apple in an orange box doesn’t make it an orange.
On This Date
On This Date will return.
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
To date, 162 people have been released from death row in the US because it was shown they had not committed the crimes they were condemned for.
Source: deathpenaltyinfo.org
Today’s Stumper
The Trivia feature will return.
Shameless Plugs
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: A Vegas Memoir!: Clock in with the graveyard crew at the Monte Carlo Security Department on the glamorous Las Vegas Strip. You’ll meet drunks, reprobates and scoundrels, and those are just the officers! The funniest Vegas memoir ever! Promise!
The Regular Guys: Meet Lenny and Larry, two comedians who team up more or less out of desperation and become the biggest in show business. As funny as you would expect from Gaylon, and poignant, too.
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