Category Archives: Gaylon’s Greatest Hits
The Daily Dose/January 9, 2018
The Daily Dose/January 9, 2017 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Notes from around the Human Experience… UP, UP AND AWAY: John Young, an American astronaut who was one of three people to have flown to the Moon twice, died … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Thurston Clarke
In Profiles in Courage he had been the one delivering the verdict, praising eight senators for possessing…the breadth of a man above party or section…and, above all, a deep-seated belief in themselves…“ – Thurston Clarke, JFK’s Last Hundred Days Thurston … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – October 25, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME: When Penn State’s punishment in the Jerry Sandusky child molesting scandal was meted out by the NCAA in 2012 we thought they got off … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – October 7, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… WE THE PEOPLE: Whether any Second Amendment supporter is ready for it or not, eventually America will begin talking seriously about regulating weapons whose sole purpose is killing large numbers of people. It’s inevitable. … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Delbert Burkett
I wish I could’ve been something they could’ve been. -Delbert Burkett Delbert Burkett is a convicted felon currently serving a 40-year sentence in a geriatric prison facility in Texas. Today’s Thought came as he was being interviewed for a documentary … Continue reading
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 5
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 5 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Much like cancer treatment, there are waypoints on the road to The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy. One is the Week 5 survey when … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – September 17, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… THIS WHOLE COLUMN IS GOING TO BE DRY, TECHNICAL MATTER ISN’T IT?: Former St Louis police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of first-degree murder and armed criminal action last week, charged after he shot … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – September 11, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… Editor’s Note: Due to the subject of today’s column, only the On This Date segment is featured ON THIS DATE! ON THIS DATE!: Al-Qaeda terrorists hijack four airplanes and conduct suicide terrorist attacks on the … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Captain Peacock
One struggles, one does one’s best, one fails, frequently, occasionally one succeeds then finally, after a long journey, one arrives. – Captain Peacock Sometimes you know when you are going come across something worthwhile and sometimes you do not. For … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – MacKinlay Kantor
…taking in a sight he might never see again… MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor was an American writer and Andersonville was a novel that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956. Andersonville was the name of a Confederate … Continue reading