The Daily Dose/July 27, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
ELECTION 2024: YOU MAKE THE CALL: The 2022 midterms aren’t even here yet, but let’s take a look at the 2024 presidential election. Our biggest fear is it will be round two of Biden vs Trump because neither has shown any particular competence at running the federal government.
Dry, Technical Matter: President Biden simply is uninspiring and we strongly suspect History will place him in the Jimmy Carter File, a decent man who means well but was simply unable to inspire the country or give us any reason to be happy to be an American.
And In This Corner: Trump remains a liar, a sexual predator, and an ignoramus, someone who believes the Revolution was won by the Continental Army securing British airports. And that the moon is part of Mars. And that Colorado borders Mexico. Why ignorance of this magnitude gets the time of day from Americans will always remain a mystery.
Stop Us If You’ve Heard This Before: Our media is responsible for the Trump Era. When he announced his candidacy in 2015, a real media – one paced by Cronkite, Woodward and Bernstein, and others – would’ve had Trump, nothing more than a billionaire blatherskite bully, out of the race in five minutes. As it was, though, Trump meant ratings and clicks and he was ushered straight into the primaries, the general election and, of course, the White House.
Back On Message: Perhaps someone will talk some sense into Biden, if he isn’t already thinking of calling it a day himself. It’s not possible to talk sense into Trump, but maybe the GOP will come to their senses and nominate someone else. Or maybe he’ll be in jail and incapable of running.
The Bottom Line: The days when anything could get done in this country are long gone. The American experience is now circling the wagons and accepting whatever major party you belong to chooses to spoon-feed you, with each side trying to force their way of life on us. This is not the American way, but us voters are not demanding the American way right now; we’re content with a status quo in charge of an America that is far closer to the oblivion that awaits it than the respect and prosperity it once had.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow works a missing person case. Today’s Diary.
I am not making that up…The only thing missing was police involvement because ol’ Sparrow ended up solving the case.
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On This Date
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In 1940 – Billboard magazine publishes its first popular music chart, the National Best Selling Retail Records chart, with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers at #1 for the first of twelve consecutive weeks with I’ll Never Smile Again. Prior to this, the magazine had listed popular songs in assorted formats, beginning in 1936. Billboard published its first soul chart in 1942 and their first country chart in 1944 and its assorted pop charts were consolidated into the Hot 100 in 1958. American charted music began in 1935 with the first charts released by the Your Hit Parade radio show.
In 1924 – The eighth Summer Olympics conclude in Paris. The Paris Summer Games had 3,089 athletes (including 135 women) from 44 nations take part, with the US winning the most gold (44) and overall medals (99). The last surviving competitor from these Games was Yugoslavian swimmer Ivo Pavelic, who died in 2011 at 103. A winter sports festival hosted in Chamonix in January and February was later designated the first Winter Olympics and Paris had previously hosted Summer Games in 1900 and will host them again in 2024.
In 1985 – Paul Young is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Everytime You Go Away. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #4 in Young’s native Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 11th-biggest song of the year. It was the fifth of nine chart singles for Young, his first of two Top 10 hits and remains his only #1 song. The song was written by Daryl Hall.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on…the cold mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was General of the Army Omar Bradley, who served from 1949-53.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
One country won one gold medal and no other medals at the 1924 Summer Olympics. What was the country and what was the sport? – Answer next time!
