Monthly Archives: January 2018
The Thought for the Day – Gene Cernan
America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow. – Gene Cernan Gene Cernan was an American astronaut. He is best known as the commander of America’s last lunar mission, Apollo 17, and was the last human to set … Continue reading
The Daily Dose/January 9, 2018
The Daily Dose/January 9, 2017 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Notes from around the Human Experience… UP, UP AND AWAY: John Young, an American astronaut who was one of three people to have flown to the Moon twice, died … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Anthony Trollope
…never think that you are not good enough yourself…My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning. – Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was an English novelist, primarily known for a series of … Continue reading
The Daily Dose/January 8, 2017
The Daily Dose/January 8, 2017 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Notes from around the Human Experience… HUT, HUT HIKE: Last time out we chatted about an NCAA-sponsored major division football tournament replacing the current four-team College Football Playoff run … Continue reading
January 7, 2018
The On This Date segment has been around since the very first Daily Dose ran ten years ago at the old Writer’s Shack. We included it because not only because we enjoy history, but because it’s useful to take a … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Paul Harvey
In times like these,it helps to remember there have always been times like these. – Paul Harvey Paul Harvey was an American radio announcer, as beloved and respected an announcer as that honorable trade has produced. He was on the … Continue reading
The Daily Dose/January 7, 2017
The Daily Dose/January 7, 2017 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Notes from around the Human Experience… HUT, HUT HIKE: Monday night in Atlanta Alabama and Georgia will meet in the championship game of the College Football Playoff (CFP), the … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day/Thomas Edison
If we did what we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman. A holder of over 1,000 patents in the US alone, Edison invented, among other things, the phonograph, … Continue reading
The Daily Dose/January 6, 2017
The Daily Dose/January 6, 2017 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Notes from around the Human Experience… HERE WE GO AGAIN: From time to time here we’ve discussed the future of the GOP. At first, before the 2016 election, we … Continue reading
January 3, 2018
Good morning dear readers. Today we have the Holy Trinity for you: The Daily Dose, The Thought for the Day and The Bottom Ten. Today’s Bottom Ten is the final NFL survey of the season though, as noted in this space earlier, we still have … Continue reading