The Daily Dose/October 29, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
QUIZ TIME: Friends, let me ask you a question:
True or false: there was a time when Donald Trump would’ve been dismissed by both America’s media and her citizens.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: We do not think there is any doubt the answer is yes. We don’t think there’s a doubt that a media of a bygone era would’ve had Trump out of the race five minutes after he announced his candidacy, and even if they hadn’t, there was a time when Americans had too much sense to tolerate his nonsense.
Fly In The Ointment: That time has passed. America is now open to his ignorance, his lies, his hatred. It doesn’t matter that Trump is a man of zero moral or intellection substance because America is no longer a nation of any moral or intellection substance.
USA! USA! We are seven decades into TV being the focal point of American life and we are stagnating. We could not muster a proper response to COVID and we haven’t done anything great since Apollo left the moon in 1972. America right now is halfway between the eminence we once enjoyed and the oblivion that awaits us. We don’t think you can argue with that, either.
Thank You, Mary Sunshine: America is dumb now. The ascendency of Donald Trump shows that. He is ignorant and insulting and so are we. We seem happy with this, too. This is too bad because ignorance is not bliss; it is chains and slavery, and if we’re not careful, eventually the US will join, among others, the USSR and the Roman Empire on History’s scrap heap.
The Bottom Line: There will come a time when we can no longer govern ourselves and someone will come in and do it for us. The cause of death will be apathy and ignorance. We deserve better than this, but you and me – we the people – are not demanding better than this right now.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow whines about all Uber drivers getting 5-star ratings. Today’s Diary.
We have some street cred here and our opinion is 5-stars is the very best this planet can muster…An Uber ride, unless it comes in a limo and includes a sex act from a babe, almost by definition cannot be the best this planet can offer…
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 10 – IT’s the race for the ESPNCup – symbolic of collegiate Bottom Ten supremacy.
Entire state ironing white hoods with Confederacy occupying two-thirds of B-10 medal stand for first time since Battle of Appomattox in 1865…
With four (4) games in Eastern time zone in 2024, Cardinal players petitioning university to exchange frequent flyer miles for doctorate degrees later in career.
With team in tank and donations for stadium renovation lagging, B-10 architects on site to supervise Champions Club changeover from prestige club for donors to B-10 Loser’s Lounge in time for 2025 season…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1929 – The Great Depression begins with the Black Tuesday crash, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) losing 11% of its value. This followed the Black Monday crash the day before, a Black Thursday crash the previous week, as well as other crashes since September. The Great Depression lasted until it petered out in World War II and the DJIA would not return to its September 3 peak until November 1954.
In 1987 – Thomas Hearns becomes the first boxer to win titles in four different weight classes, winning the WBC middleweight title with a 4th-round knockout over Juan Roldan of Argentina in Las Vegs. Earlier Hearns had won the world light heavyweight, welterweight, and light middleweight titles, and later would win the super middle weight title. It was the second of three losses in a world title fight for Roldan.
In 1955 – Chuck Berry is at #1 on Billboard’s Most Played in Juke Boxes chart – a predecessor to today’s soul chart – for the ninth of eleven consecutive weeks with Maybellene. Earlier, the song had gone to #1 on Billboard’s R&B Best Sellers in Stores chart and their Most Played by Jockeys chart and peaked at #5 on the Best Sellers pop chart. It was the first of three soul #1s for Berry.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
If God is perfect, he had no need to create a world; if he is imperfect he is not God.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Nikita Kruschev was premier of the Soviet Union from 1958-64.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Chuck Berry’s only #1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100? – Answer next time!
