The Daily Dose/February 8, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT: One of the ways President Trump’s ignorance manifests itself is in his issuance of executive orders. He thinks – or knows and ignores – that executive orders are a way for him to force-feed America whatever he wants.
Dry, Technical Matter: They’re not, of course. The purpose of an executive order is to allow the president to manage the country and fulfill his constitutional mandate to execute the laws of the United States faithfully.
#Ooopsies: They cannot be used to countermand federal law nor can they be used to initiate new policy. Their purpose is to instruct executive departments on executing existing federal law.
FunFact: Trump is on a pace to issue more than 3,700 executive orders this term, roughly what FDR issued in twelve years and about 1,900 more than the next closest competitor, Woodrow Wilson.
Civics 101: Congress, of course, is the only branch of the government that can make laws; the president cannot dictate them. He is not a dictator; dictators dictate, and presidents preside.
The Bottom Line: What were we expecting? Donald Trump is petty, vindictive, and ignorant and cares about nothing except drawing attention to himself and overpowering everyone until he gets his way. His only real talent is blathering off the top of his head. We’ve known this for nine years, though, and we’ve elected him anyway. We deserve everything we get during his second term.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow and Asher work their last graveyard shift together. Today’s Diary.
Then Asher and I went and unlocked doors and that was that, the Asher Era concluded.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1924 – A gas chamber is used for an execution in the US for the first time, at Nevada State Prison in Carson City. Gee Jon had been convicted in February 1922 of murdering Tom Quong Kee in an Asian gang dispute. Accounts indicate Jon passed out within a few seconds and was motionless ten minutes later. The gas chamber was built in the prison butcher shop when pumping gas directly into Jon’s cell failed, and the last execution in the US in a gas chamber occurred in Arizona in 1999.
In 1896 – The oldest extant intercollegiate sports conference in the US forms when seven universities form what would become the Big Ten. The conference consisted of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago, Purdue, and Northwestern, and today, it has 18 teams. The name Big Ten was first used in 1916, and before that, the conference was commonly known as the Western Conference. The first college conference was the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest, from 1892-93, with members Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Northwestern.
In 1992 – Right Said Fred is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with I’m Too Sexy. The song went to #1 in five other countries, including New Zealand and Ireland, peaked at #2 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 13th-biggest song of the year. It was the first of two chart singles for the group and remains their only Top 40 hit.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
But for the chosen, there is no choice.
Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Lebron James career high for points in a game is 61, on March 3, 2014 against the Charlotte Bobcats.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who won the first Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest’s football title in 1892? – Answer next time!
