The Daily Dose/May 5, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Marijuana – Noted mood management herb coming closer to being taken off of US government’s top-shelf Scheule I narcotics and put on a list on par with peanut butter…About time…Legislating morality has never worked because people will ignore inconvenient laws and go about their business anyway…
2. NCAA – Noted college athletics governing body reportedly discussing settlement of anti-trust lawsuit that should only cost them $3 billion (B) dollars or so, plus whatever they end up paying athletes…NCAA still seeking supporting federal legislation, but the government must butt out of this…The NCAA made this bed and they can lie in it.
3. Mass Shootings – Thee (3)-hole staple secures precarious hold on coveted Sunday Bottom 5 spot with strong week: 13- mass shootings – incidents with four (4) or more casualties – twelve (12) deaths, including two (2) perps, and a man-sized 57 wounded…Nine (9) shootings occur in Deep South, which says something though Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” they don’t know what it is.
4. Los Angeles Lakers – As iconic a sports team as this nation has produced in full panic mode now, firing good coach who had temerity to lead team to two (2) playoff appearances, including conference finals, in two years…Team should consider moving on from passive-aggressive imbroglio authored by LeBron James and hire WNBA’s Becky Hammon as coach.
5. Fake News – Click here for some of the news some wizards amongst us actually believed…Courtesy of the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow mows the lawn for the first time this year and issues his usual line. Today’s Diary.
The lawn remains an eclectic combination of weeds, whole grains, and grasses…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: These items first ran in 2020.
In 1961 – Astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American and the second human to reach space, flying a sub-orbital flight aboard Freedom 7. Shepard’s flight lasted 15 minutes, reaching an altitude of 101.2 nautical miles (about 116 statute miles) and in 1971 Shepard commanded Apollo 14 and became the fifth human to walk on the moon. Shepard had graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1944, served in the surface Navy before becoming a pilot in 1950, and retired as a rear admiral. In April, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly into space.
In 1973 – Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, wins the 99th Kentucky Derby by two-and-a-half lengths over Sham. Secretariat won in a time of 1 minute, 52 and ⅖ seconds, breaking the record of 2 minutes established by Native Dancer in 1964 and the record still stands. Secretariat would later win the Preakness and Belmont Stakes to become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948.
In 1973 – Dawn, Featuring Tony Orlando, is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third of four consecutive weeks with Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. It was the second of three #1s for the group (Knock Three Times, three weeks, 1971; He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You, three weeks, 1975) and their third of six Top 10 hits. The song went to #1 in eight other countries, including Norway and Great Britain, was Billboard’s #1 song of the year and placed 46th on their 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. A version that year by Johnny Carver titled Yellow Ribbon went to #5 on Billboard’s country chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions.
Louis L’Amour
Education of a Wandering Man
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Six Olympic Games have been held in France, three Summer Games in Paris (1900, 1924, 2024) and three Winter Olympics: Chamonix, 1924, Grenoble, 1968; and Albertville, 1992.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was Secretariat’s trainer? – Answer next time!
