The Daily Dose/February 22, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
GAYLON FOR CONGRESS…VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: We had the privilege of speaking at a rally Tuesday in support of Julian Assange, the Australian editor and general rascal who founded WikiLeaks and has exposed many, too many, civil and human rights violations by assorted governments. He is currently fighting extradition to the US.
Hope You Left Bail Money With Someone: It was our first protest…Well, our first official, organized protest, one where you can get arrested if you play your cards right. Our past candidacies for the US Senate and House have been protests, too, because we weren’t running because we like the status quo.
Dry, Technical Matter: Assange, after skipping bail on something unrelated to this, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, an asylum that was later withdrawn, and he has been the guest of His Majesty Charles III at a British prison since.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: Julian Assange was merely a reporter doing his work and no more deserves to be locked up than we do for writing this.
The Bottom Line: There are a variety of types of courage in this world. There is great courage that is either displayed at momentous times or causes momentous times, and there is courage displayed on a daily basis. Assange had the first type and regular folks like us can show the second. So please, if you’re on board with this, feel free to break away from the herd, shed the slots others assign you and speak up for the government and country we deserve.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has breakfast. Today’s Diary.
…we gave their biscuits and gravy a try…They were good…Not great…Not as good as their hotcakes and certainly not as good as the best biscuits and gravy we’ve ever had, those made by The Ex, but they weren’t too bad, either…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1770 – The first death in the American Revolution occurs when 12-year-old Christopher Seider is shot by a customs officer during a protest outside a Boston shop. Seider was shot by Ebenezer Richardson, who had fired indiscriminately into the crowd. The shooting escalated tensions between colonists and the British, which resulted in the Boston Massacre on March 5. Richardson was found guilty of murder but was pardoned by King George III.
In 1983 – Marcel Dionne of the Los Angeles Kings becomes the first player in NHL history to score at least 40 goals in a season nine times in a 5-3 win over the Boston Bruins. Dionne’s 40th goal came in the third period and he would later extend the mark to ten seasons before retiring in 1989. The record was later broken by Wayne Gretzky and is now held by Alex Ovechkin with 13.
In 1975 – The Average White Band is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Pick Up the Pieces. It was the first of five Top 40 hits for the group, their first of two Top 10 hits and remains their only #1 song. The song also peaked at #6 in Great Britain, at #5 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 20th-biggest song of the year. The song was from the album AWB, which was in its only week at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
– Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?
– A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Eomer and Aragorn
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The US post office began requiring prepayment for postage in 1855.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 song of 1975? – Answer next time!
