The Daily Dose/October 2, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Vladimir Putin – Russian leader completely off his rocker now, conducting elections and annexing parts of Ukraine nobody outside of his bedroom acknowledges as legitimate…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” it’s only a matter of time before further battlefield setbacks – thanks in no small part to US and European aid – before he completely loses his mind and starts deploying nukes.
2. Student Loan Relief – Now you see it, now you don’t!!!…It’s pretty complex, but a Department of Education ruling means over three-quarters of a million borrowers could now be excluded from relief, which we don’t think they were entitled to anyway…Pay your debts, dammit…We do.
3. USA! USA! – The current 3-hole staple…75 percent of kids are now too fat, stupid, or drug-addled to join Army…Citizens still earning marksmanship ribbons at record pace America…Entire country circling wagons, unable to face any viewpoint not in step with their own…America remains far closer to the oblivion that awaits her than the prosperity she once knew, with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” America has until half-century is out to show it can govern itself before someone comes in and does it for us.
4. DART Spacecraft – American spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid in test to see if it could later course of rock heading towards earth…Impact was as scheduled and while the impact produced energy barely equiclenat to three (3) tons of TNT, even Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters are (mostly) smart enough to know that even a small change in trajectory could cause avoidance with Earth.
5. Fake News – Click here for a recap of what some of the wizards amongst us were believing this week. Courtesy of the dreaded AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – The lawn’s not completely dormant, and Sparrow will have to mow the lawn this week. Today’s Diary.
That fertilizer company we bought some stuff from recommends we mulch the leaves back into the ground and because that is easier than raking them up – not to mention cheaper than paying someone to pick them up – it’s advice we are completely on board with…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2018 – Saudi national and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Kashoggi was 59 and had long been a critic of the Saudi government. The Saudis convicted several people in a trial no one outside of Saudi Arabia took seriously and the general conclusion is that the assassination was ordered by the highest levels of the Saudi government. Turkey had initiated legal proceedings en absentia, but this past spring referred the matter back to Saudi Arabie.
In 1963 – Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers establishes a new World Series record for most strikeouts in a game in a 5-3 Dodgers win in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium. Koufax struck out 15 batters to break the record of 14 established by Carl Erskine of the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 3 of the 1953 World Series and the record is now 17, by Bob Gibson of the St Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series. Koufax would win two games in the series that the Dodgers won in four games.
In 2010 – Bruno Mars is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of four consecutive weeks with Just The Way You Are. It was the first chart single for Mars, his first of 17 Top 10 hits, and his first of seven #1 songs. The song went to #1 in ten other countries, including Israel, Venezuela, and Great Britain, was Billboard’s 18th-biggest song of 2010, it’s 15th-biggest of 2011, and its 22nd-biggest of the decade. Later in the year, a version by the cast of the TV show Glee would peak at #40 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I almost never think of my calendar years. I’m forever hiking across the same plateau with no end in sight.
Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
B.J. Thomas’ last appearance on a Billboard chart came in 2000 when You Call That a Mountain peaked at #66 on the Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who holds the League Championship Series record for most strikeouts in a game? – Answer next time!
