The Daily Dose/March 6, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: President Trump addressed Congress Tuesday night, and it was the same nonsense we’ve put up with since he announced for the GOP nomination in 2015: self-serving, gnorant, witless blather riddled with lies and inaccuracies. It is all Trump is capable of, like is blather of taking over Greenland.
Fly In The Ointment: And everyone knows it, too. You know it, I know it, your aunt in Duluth knows it, but nobody has ever been able to tell Trump “no, enough, you’re wrong, this is not the way things are”. He is a bully and most people are afraid of bullies.
USA! USA!: We all deserve blame for this. Instead of calling a spade a spade and telling Trump not to bother us, the American public – seven decades into TV and fast food being at the center of American life – is as witless as he is. We embraced him and so did the media.
#Oopsies: Let’s be honest, a media paced by Walter Cronkite, Woodward and Bernstein, and any of a dozen other journalists of the era would’ve dismissed Trump before the weekend. Today, the media’s primary job is to tell their target audience what they want to hear and not report substantive issues that might go against their grain. Trump meant ratings and clicks, so instead of dismissing a man of zero intellectual substance who had no business running for president, he was ushered into the primaries, the nomination, and the White House.
The Bottom Line: The only question is how much damage he can do in four years. Our guess is the damage will be mitigated because Trump’s utter lack of a big picture vision for both himself and his country will mean a lack of tangible results: he lives and governs off the top of his head, doing whatever he feels will garner him the most attention. But who knows? We elected a dunce and we are going to have to live with the results.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow oversleeps. Today’s Diary.
…we had no time to workout at all, unless all we wanted to do was do one medicine ball twist and walk around the basketball court once before heading home.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 456 – Forty-two Byzantine officials who had been kidnapped seven years earlier are executed by Islamic leaders in Samara, now in central Iraq. The officials were taken hostage following the sack of Amorium in western Turkey and the Islamic caliphate had hoped to get a ransom for the hostages, but with no hope of that, they were executed after refusing to convert.
In 1919 – The Montreal Canadiens win the NHL championship, defeating the Ottawa Senators 4-2 to win the best-of-7 series in five games. It was the first of 24 NHL titles for the Canadiens and the only one that did not involve winning the Stanley Cup. The Canadiens played the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the Stanley Cup, but the series was canceled after five games due to the Spanish flu epidemic.
In 1993 – Peabo Bryson and Regina Bell are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with A Whole New World. The song also peaked at #8 in Great Britain, at #21 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 18th-biggest song of the year. The song was played over the closing credits of the movie Aladdin and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. Another version in the film by Brad Kane and Lea Solanga won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. It remains the only #1 song for both Bryson and Belle.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I can be silenced, not by enemies, not by authority – but by my own comfortable indifference.
Morris West
The Clowns of God
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Kobe Bryant scored the most points in an NBA game by someone other than Wilt Chamberlain, 80, in January 2006. He broke David Thompson’s record of 73, established in April 1978.
Today’s Stumper
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What was Billboard’s #1 song of 1993? – Answer next time!
