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The Daily Dose/August 27, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes From Around Our Human Experience
HUT, HUT, HIKE: Recently Jed York, the owner of the San Francisco 49ers football team, got caught up in a sting operation and was arrested for solicitation in a rural Ohio trailer park. He texted someone he thought was a vendor willing and able to provide some Sunday morning nookie, and they agreed on a $160 fee.
Fly In The Ointment: Unfortunately, he was not talking with a professional sex vendor, but with the local constables. Our first thought was “the guy’s rich, and he’s paying $160 for a trailer park hookup”?
Quote That Sucker: Well, as someone smarter than us once said sex, like hunger, is an appetite, and you don’t always eat the finest restaurants. Sometimes you slum, and happily, too.
My Partner’s Bill Gannon…My Name’s Friday: Our second thought was, “why is this still a crime”?…Good gravy, an old fart wants a piece, and he finds someone to sell it to him. So what? Where’s the crime here? A better question is: who’s the victim here? Because you cannot have a crime without a victim. Is the woman receiving money she probably really needs the victim, or is the man paying her the victim?
FunFact: Besides, we all pay for it, don’t we guys? The only question is whether it’s a direct cash grant or whether we buy them dinner first.
The Bottom Line: Morality laws don’t do anyone any good, and it is time to repeal them. If paying for sex or legal weed isn’t to your taste, that’s all right, they’re not to my taste, either, but just because something is legal does not make it mandatory. What consenting adults want to do behind closed doors is their lookout, and nobody else’s. Jed York’s actions this past Sunday should never have made news.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s not sure if he needs to standy with a constable. Today’s Diary.
Security 101 dictates it’s not completely bad to have an officer present in this situation, and it’s one of those deals where we would rather be told we don’t have to do something than be told we should’ve done something…
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On This Date
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In 1957 – South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond begins a speech to the United States Senate at 8:54 pm against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The address turned into a 24 hour, 18 minute filibuster, which Thurmond stopped the following night due to doctors concerns about his kidneys. It was then the longest filibuster in US Senate history, and is now the second. Despite Thurmond’s opposition, the bill later passed the Senate by a 60-15 margin and was signed into law by President Eisenhower on September 9.
In 2004 – Argentina and the United States win basketball gold medals at the Athens Summer Olympics. Argentina defeated Italy 84-69 for the men’s gold medal while the US defeated Australia 74-63 for the women’s gold medal. It remains the only men’s basketball gold medal for Argentina and was the fifth of ten gold medals for the US women’s team.
In 1976 – KC and the Sunshine Band is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul Singles chart – for the only week with (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty. It was the third of four #1 soul singles for the group and their third of seven soul Top 10 hits. The song also went #1 pop in Canada and later would spend a week at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. It was Billboard’s fourth-biggest soul song of the year and its 26th biggest overall.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
But fate, it seems, is unavoidable rather than unexpected.
Plutarch
Roman Lives
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The major league record for most runs in a game by one team is 36, by the Chicago Colts – now the Cubs – who defeated the Louisville Colonels 36-7 on June 29, 1897.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who now has the longest filibuster in US Senate history? – Answer next time!
As noted on Wednesday, The Daily Dose is enjoying a couple of days off.
Click here to read today’s entry in The Diary of a Nobody.
Cheers,
Yo Homie(s),
The Daily Dose will return. We have some projects that need our attention and, of course, it will return.
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It’s Sparrow…An average man passing an average life.
Monday, August 24
Here We Go
What a pleasant nite it was at the hotel…Occupancy was nice and low – about a third – so few bothered me, and we got most everything done that we wanted to…It’s why you keep jobs like this, frankly: easy work and not a whole hell of a lot of it, with lots of time for projects.
The Daily Dose/August 25, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes From Around Our Human Experience
HUT, HUT, HIKE: Longtime readers of this crap know today would’ve been the day the 2026 Bottom Ten made its debut with the reliably funny Preseason Q&A kicking things off.
Fly In The Ointment: But not this year. The inspiration – the bedrock of the creative process – for the feature isn’t there anymore, and with that gone, it’s time to call it a day.
Dry, Technical Matter: To have carried on would have seen every word forced, and that’s not writing, friends; it’s typing. You, me, and the Bottom Ten pollsters – a group of drunks as imaginary as they are real – deserve better than that.
The Bottom Ten Medal Stand: We’re “pretty sure” the blame for this can be laid directly at the feet of The Bottom Ten/NCAA Team of the Quarter Century edition that ran last year. We had been looking forward to that column for many years, and – even though there were subsequent NFL Bottom Tens to write – it proved a satisfying way to go out.
Mitigating Factors: Though the NFL Bottom Ten took a handful of bye weeks over the years, the NCAA Bottom Ten never missed a week. Come hell or high water, good times and bad. Once or twice over the past two-and-a-half decades, when times seemed almost beyond tolerance, it was the only refuge a week offered.
The Dan Henning Trophy: We go way back with The Bottom Ten, first reading it in the Los Angeles Times as a boy. A really funny writer named Steve Harvey wrote it, and we seem to recall it ran on Wednesdays; we usually read it out loud to Dad.
This Is Don Criqui Reporting: Years later, it’s the Double Aughts, and we’re writing and editing for an internet company in Las Vegas, and the combined forces of a desperate need for content and not having a whole hell of a lot to do otherwise found us writing our own Bottom Ten.
B-10 TitleTrak Radar: We’ve long said there were two parts of a year, the part when we were writing The Bottom Ten and the part when we weren’t, and only the first part was worth a damn. True enough. It was also true that if you enjoyed reading it half as much as we enjoyed writing it, you enjoyed it an awful lot.
The Bottom Line: But times change, and it’s time for The Bottom Ten to go. It’s been the best of friends, and we say farewell with the fondest of memories and the broadest of smiles. We hope you do, too.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow haggles with a potential guest. Today’s Diary.
– I can waive the parking fee, but there’s not a whole lot of leeway otherwise.
This was a lie, of course; I could lower the rate to a few bucks and waive whatever the hell I wanted…My authority is that broad…
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On This Date
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In 1814 – The British occupation of Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812 continued, with British troops burning the Library of Congress and the Treasury and War Departments. This came a day after the British burned the White House, Capitol building, and the Washington Navy Yard, and marked the second time – the first was during the American Revolution – that the British had captured America’s capital without winning the war. The War of 1812 ended the following year with inconclusive results.
In 1922 – The Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs establish new major league records for the most runs and the most hits in a game in a 26-23 Cubs victory. The teams combined for 49 runs and 51 hits, and research into whose records they broke was inconclusive. The record for runs still stands, and on July 10, 1932, the Philadelphia A’s and Cleveland Indians combined for 58 hits in an 18-inning game won by the A’s 18-17.
In 1979 – The Charlie Daniels Band is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with The Devil Went Down to Georgia. The song also went #1 country in Canada, went #14 pop in Great Britain, and peaked at #3 on the Hot 100. It was the third of twelve Top 40 country hits for Daniels, his first of three Top 10s, and remains his only #1 country hit and his biggest pop hit. Daniels died in 2020, and his chart career ran from 1973-2003.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…anarchy is not the result of the commitment, all at once, of a serious crime, but people who fail to be strict about minor matters also destroy the guard that protects more serious concerns.
Plutarch
Roman Lives
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Four of Mark David Chapman’s five shots hit John Lennon.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What team holds the record for most runs scored in a major league game? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/August 24, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes From Around Our Human Experience
ALREADY WITH THE DRY, TECHNICAL MATTER: Last week in this space we discussed America’s national debt, which has now passed $40 trillion, a figure that has doubled in the last nine years and should astound and flummox every one of us. While doing some research for that column, we came across a couple of figures from this fiscal year:
Dry, Technical Matter II: Both tariffs and corporate income taxes are expenses businesses pass on to us. (Tariffs are paid by importers and, eventually, by us). Add those figures up, and that is $728 billion being taken away from us. Add in the $500 billion we spend getting our taxes done, and that is $1.3 trillion that is not in our pockets, bank accounts, or retirement funds; that is $1.3 trillion we are not saving, spending, or blowing at the track.
Gaylon For Congress…Vote Early, Vote Often: This is wrong. We’re taxed enough, and we don’t need hidden taxes like corporate tax payments or tariffs passed on to us. We deserve a personal income tax code that isn’t 9 million words long, and we deserve a one-page personal tax return. We deserve an economy anchored in low taxes, free markets, and organized American workers.
The Bottom Line: The status quo is not going to deliver any of these things, however. You know it, I know it, and you know what? – they know it, too. So it’s time to rid ourselves of the status quo. It’s time for concerned and conscientious citizens – like you and me, we the people – to start demanding this Election Day.
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is the Libertarian Party’s nominee for Congress from Colorado’s 2nd District. Visit his campaign site here.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow eases into work at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
We were pleased with this, tho, because it gave us a good long stretch of indulging in our new fave pastime: sitting on a lobby couch – with coffee – and watching Robert work…
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On This Date
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In 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon the previous December. Chapman was arrested at the scene, and later pled guilty to 2nd-degree murder, over the objection of his attorney, who had reservations about his mental state. Chapman, described as a model prisoner, has been denied parole 14 times, most recently last year, and is currently housed at a state prison north of New York City.
In 1940 – Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, normally an outfielder, makes the only major league pitching appearance of his career in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader. Williams pitched the last two innings, giving up a run on three hits, with a strikeout and zero walks, and went 0-for-4 at the plate. The Red Sox won the second game 8-7, with Williams going 1-for-3, with two walks and three runs scored.
In 2002 – Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second of seven consecutive weeks with Dilemma. The song went to #1 in ten other countries, including Switzerland and Great Britain, was in its first of nine consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was their 4th-biggest song of the year and their 11th-biggest of the decade. It was the second of four #1s for Nelly, and remains the only #1 for Rowland.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Success has to be snatched by the speed and daring with which unarmed lions boldly move against nervous creatures.
Plutarch
Roman Lives
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 album for 1980 was The Wall by Pink Floyd, which spent 15 consecutive weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Mark David Chapman fired at John Lennon five times. How many of those shots hit Lennon? – Answer next time!
