The Daily Dose/November 5, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s running into cat food supply chain issues.
…the fly in the ointment is for the past three weeks or so they’ve been out of the boxed canned yummies designed for senior cats…Now, they do have individual cans of senior yummies, but it’s only one flavor (tho the flavor appears to rotate, today it was some beef stuff, last time chicken) so we mix it up with some non-senior yummies that she likes.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2009 – The deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation occurs when Army Major Nidal Hasan kills 13 and wounds 22 at Fort Hood in central Texas. Hasan was an Army psychiatrist and though he had been in email contact with a known terror threat, he was judged not to be a threat by the FBI. Hasan himself was shot several times and remains paralyzed from the waist down and he was court-martialed in 2013, found guilty, condemned to death, and is currently incarcerated at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Before earning a commission, Hasan had enlisted in the Army in 1988.
In 1927 – Walter Hagen wins the PGA Championship, 1 up (meaning he won one more hole than his opponent) over Joe Turnesa at the Cedar Crest Country Club in Dallas. It was the fourth consecutive and fifth and final PGA title for Hagen and was his ninth of eleven major championships and was the highest finish in a major for Turnesa. Hagen’s total of 58 tour wins is still good for eighth on the all-time PGA list and this remains the only major hosted by Cedar Crest.
Today – Taylor Swift is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first week with Anti-Hero and establishes Hot 100 records by simultaneously occupying all ten positions in the Top 10, with ten Top 10 singles from one album also establishing a new Hot 100 record. The previous record for most songs in the Top 10 simultaneously was nine by Drake in September 2021. All 20 songs from Swift’s latest album Midnights are in the Hot 100 this week, with the lowest-ranked song at #45. It is the ninth #1 song for Swift and she now has 40 top 10 hits, a total good for second on the all-time list, behind Drake’s 59. – Editor’s Note: This story actually broke earlier this week, but new Billboard charts officially run on Saturday, so this is the first day Anti-Hero has been at #1.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Quality is achieving and reaching for the highest standard as against being satisfied with the sloppy or fraudulent. It is honesty of purpose as against catering to cheap or sensational sentiment. It does not allow compromise with the second rate.
Barbara Tuchman
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s biggest song of 1972 was The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack, which spent six weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
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What is the record for most songs simultaneously in the Hot 100 by one act? – Answer next time!
