The Daily Dose/April 25, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
GREAT MOMENTS IN THE DEATH PENALTY: Alabama executed convicted rapist and murderer James Osgood, 55, Thursday night. He was put to death after he dropped his appeals and his guilt was never in question.
Fly In The Ointment: This brings up an interesting conundrum for those who oppose the death penalty: is it OK when the condemned man wants to die?
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: No, it is not. This country has executed innocent people. To deny that is folly, and the death penalty must be abolished for that reason. There should be no appeals for a condemned man to drop.
Dry, Technical Matter: Besides, let’s be honest, even considering he wanted his sentence carried out – about ten percent do – Osgood’s death served little purpose. It is unlikely to deter anyone else from murdering, and we are no safer today than we were yesterday. All we did was exercise our age-old need for vengeance.
More Dry, Technical Matter: You would think mankind would have evolved from this and death would no longer be punishment for a crime. After all, we’ve evolved in other aspects. For example, armies no longer eat their prisoners. In time, they advanced to making slaves out of them, and we are sufficiently advanced now to take them prisoner.
Fly In The Ointment: But we humans haven’t evolved from this: the death penalty is still around, and so is war. Religion hasn’t gone anywhere, either, with adherents still needing the spiritual aid and comfort we humans have required since time immemorial.
The Bottom Line: America has executed innocent people. If you don’t believe me, look up two names: Cameron Todd Willingham and James Beatherd. If sufficient research leads you to believe they deserved to die, all right, we’ll disagree, but yay to you for being an informed citizen. Even considering there are guilty people who want their death sentence carried out, the death penalty must be abolished.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets a date with a woman. Today’s Diary.
Regular readers of this crap know the chances of an actual date are slim…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1983 – Pioneer 10, launched by the US in 1972, becomes the first man-made object to cross Pluto’s orbit. Pluto was then inside of Neptune and Pioneer 10 would become the first man-made object to leave the Solar System in June and would remain the farthest spacecraft from Earth until overtaken by Voyager 1 in 1998. Earth received its last signal from Pioneer 10 in 2003 and is now estimated to be about 13 billion miles from Earth.
In 2001 – Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres establishes a new major league record for most career walks in a 5-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Henderson’s 9th-inning walk was the 2,063rd of his career, breaking the record of 2,062 established by Babe Ruth between 1914 and 1935. Henderson retired in 2003 with 2,190 walks and the mark is now 2,538 by Barry Bonds. Henderson led the American League in walks four times.
In 1987 – Aretha Franklin and George Michael are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me). The song went to #1 in six other countries, including Zimbabwe and Great Britain, at #5 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was their 36th-biggest song of the year. It was the second and final #1 song for Franklin and the sixth of eleven #1 songs for Michael. The song won the Grammy Award for the Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group,
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
In this emergency, he consulted his native common sense, and found it a good guide.
Dorothy L Sayers
Murder Must Advertise
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The Bee Gees have had one #1 album in Great Britain, Spirits Having Flown, which spent two weeks at the top in 1979.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who has the most career walks amongst active major league players? – Answer next time!
