The Daily Dose/July 24, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Donald Trump – Trump’s utter incompetence on display at January 6 hearings as Trump – as delusional and ignorant as ever – totally unable to install right-wing dictatorship in executive branch (like the one he installed at the Supreme Court) despite having sufficient people to storm capitol.
2. College Football – What remains of NCAA authorizes unlimited transfers for athletes, instead of only one…As noted last week, everyone associated with major division college athletics – players, coaches, universities, networks, conferences – now in it solely to make as much money as possible, a situation that History shows sometimes ends in collapse….Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” it can’t be too long before players orgainze, to demand more tha NIL mere pittances.
3. USA! USA! – The new 3-hole staple…Country still far closer to the oblivion that awaits it than the prosperity, influence it once had because no nation can survive perpetual war, deep social divide, and an utter lack of national vision forever…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” America has until half-century is out to show it can govern itself before someone comes in and does it for us.
4. Baseball’s All-Star Game – Game that use to draw over 20 million viewers draws all-time low of 7.5 million for 2022 edition…Butt-ugly uniforms could’ve been a factor, but fading interest in former national pastime in play, too.
5. Fake News – Click here for roundup of nonsense some wizards amongst us were believing this week…From the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Yes, it’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow deals with a demented woman at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
…boy, the truly demented could be tuff once you get them in-house because you never know when they’re going to call up and report a yak under their bed or demand room service deliver fresh ink for their fountain pens.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1998 – Russell Weston, Jr, enters the US Capitol and shoots and kills two Capitol police officers and wounds another officer and a civilian. Six years earlier Weston had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and would later be deemed unfit to stand trial. Weston would later say he committed the shootings to prevent the US from being ruined by disease and cannibals. He remains in civil confinement.
In 1968 – Hoyt Wilhelm of the Chicago White Sox establishes a new major league record for most appearances by a pitcher in a 1-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics. Wilhelm appeared in his 907th career game, breaking the record established by Cy Young, who had first set the mark in 1905. Wilhelm retired after the 1972 season with 1,070 games pitched. The record was broken in 1998 by Dennis Eckersley and is now held by Jesse Orosco, with 1,252 games pitched.
In 1961 – Bobby Lewis is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third of seven consecutive weeks with Tossin’ and Turnin’. It was the first of two Top 40 hits for Lewis and remains his only #1 song. The song was also in its fourth of ten weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, was Billboard’s biggest hit of the year, its fourth-biggest of the decade, and it placed 36th on Billboard’s 60th anniversary Hot 100 chart in 2018.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not on the equal freedom of any other man.
Herbert Spencer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 song of 1966 was California Dreamin’ by the Mamas and the Papas.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When did Hoyt Wilhelm make his major league debut? – Answer next time!
