The Daily Dose/January 19, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Donald Trump – The lying, ignorant sexual predator – a man of no intellectual or moral substance and now a convicted felon – resumes his presidency tomorrow…Previously, he claimed the moon is part of Mars and that Colorado deserves a border fence…Now, among other things, he wants to make Canada the 51st state and take the canal back from Panama, things smart middle schoolers everywhere know are completely whack.
2. College Football Playoff – Hey guys, kudos on a pretty good playoff…There is some tweaking that needs to be done – Boise State and Arizona State did not deserve top four seeds and Oregon deserved better – but overall, not too bad…About time, too…One thing, though: can we please wrap this up on New Year’s Day???…We lose interest in college football after that…Please play it at the Rose Bowl, too.
3. USA! USA! – The 3-hole staple…The shocker is not that Donald Trump continues to spew idiocy – it’s what he does, after all – but that America fell for it…A media paced by Uncle Walter and Woodward and Bernstein would’ve had Trump out of the race in 2015, but today’s media escorted him straight to the primaries, where Trump found a collectively stupid America that now prefers appeasement to accomplishment.
4. Washington Commanders – Did we call it or what???…SB5 pollsters – classic bandwagoners – called their upset win over the top-seeded Detroit Lions…Or would have had there been a Sunday Bottom 5 last week…Trust us.
5. Israeli/Hamas War – As we write this, ceasefire still not in effect, though SB5 pollsters remain “pretty sure” war turned into genocide months ago, as civilian slaughter continued long after Israel gained military and tactical advantage.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is slow to realize the heater at the hotel is back on. Today’s Diary.
Showing that our powers of observation are now basically squat, we didn’t notice it until about an hour in, when we were sitting in our back office, noticed the space heater there wasn’t on, and realized our hands weren’t cold…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1981 – The US and Iran sign an agreement to release 52 US hostages held at the American embassy in Tehran since November 1979. The agreement is known as the Algiers Accords because Algeria helped broker the deal and coordinated the release of the hostages with the release of Iranian assets in the US. The hostages would be released the following day, as Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president. Other US and British hostages taken in different places at the same time would be released by late 1982.
In 1963 – Roy Emerson of Australia wins the Australian Championships, defeating countryman Ken Fletcher 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 in Adelaide. It was the second of six Australian Championship wins for Emerson and his third of twelve Grand Slam titles. For Fletcher, it remains his only Grand Slam singles final, to go along with ten Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and two doubles championships. The tournament has been played in Melbourne since 1972.
In 1991 – Garth Brooks is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart – for the second and final consecutive weeks with Unanswered Prayers. The song also went #1 country in Canada and was Billboard’s 9th-biggest country song of the year. It was the sixth country hit for Brooks and his fourth of 19 #1 country songs. The song was from the album No Fences, which was Billboard’s #1 country album of the year and it’s 2nd-biggest pop album.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
They [Hindus] pointed out that the raising of Lazarus from the dead was unworthy of remark; their own religion had many more interesting and astonishing miracles than this…
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Donna Summer has had three #1s on the Billboard 200 album chart: Bad Girls, Live and More, and On The Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who signed the Algiers Accords on behalf of the United States? – Answer next time!
