The Daily Dose/November 9, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
CAPSULE ELECTION REVIEW: The 2024 United States Presidential Election: We elected him anyway.
Dry, Technical Matter: We elected him despite everything: despite convictions, impeachments, ignorance, lies, and admitting to sexually preying on women. We elected him despite an insurrection. We elected him even though he is one of the worst examples of a human being (Non-Dictator Division) that this species can muster. We elected him despite the fact he will always have blood on his hands from an incompetant COVID response during his first term.
What In The Hell Is Going On Here?: When History looks at why, they will note an America that had become a lot like Donald Trump himself: selfish and ignorant, interested only in what they want to hear, and preferring to blurt opinions instead of putting the work in to form beliefs. The collective American mind is mush now, ruined by seven decades of witless primetime TV lineups.
Fly In The Ointment: We couldn’t respond to COVID and we haven’t done anything great since leaving the moon in 1972, and right now America is halfway between the eminence we once had and oblivion that awaits us. All we’re good at right now is bickering.
The Bottom Line: We are only as good as our last election, and America – exactly like her president-elect – is now a nation with zero moral or intellectual substance. We elected an unread halfwit who believes the moon is part of Mars and that the Revolution was won when British airports were secured, things a smart middle-schooler knows are false. We elected ignorance, lies, and hate. Four years from now, when we look back on the detritus of what used to be America, we will only have ourselves to blame. We elected it; America was destroyed from within.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has some laughs at the hospital. Today’s Diary.
Perry, in what is not the Upset of the Year, was walking faster than us, and he told us to have a good nite.
– Hey, Perry, you got any expired medication for us…You know, to help liven up the nite???
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1862 – General Ambrose Burnside takes command of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Maj. Gen. George McClellan. Burnside would lead the Union army to decisive defeats in the battles of the Fredricksburg and The Crater and would be relieved the following August. Burnside would later serve three one-year terms as governor of Rhode Island. His distinctive facial hair inspired the term sideburns.
In 1989 – Dale Ellis of the Seattle SuperSonics establishes a new NBA record for most minutes in a game in a 155-154, five-overtime loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. Ellis broke the mark of 64 minutes established by Sleepy Floyd of Golden State in February 1967, and the record still stands. Teammate Xavier McDaniel played 68 minutes in the game, which is the second-longest game in NBA history.
1985 – Jan Hammer is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Miami Vice Theme. The song also peaked at #5 in Great Britain and at #10 on Billboard’s soul chart. Hammer had no other Hot 100 hits and he remains one of 19 ultimate one-hit wonders: an act whose only Hot 100 single goes to #1. It was the last instrumental #1 song on the Hot 100 until 2013 when Harlem Shake by Baauer, who is also an ultimate one-hit wonder, spent five weeks at #1.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The real struggle is with a small professional elite totally split off from the nation, pursuing wealth through wars that they invent and justify and resonate for others to die in.
Gore Vidal
The Golden Age
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The NCAA record for most 3-point field goals made in a game is 27 by Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College (Iowa) in 2012.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What is the longest game in NBA history? – Answer next time!
