The Daily Dose/February 24, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
AICHIWAWA: Sunday, outside of Guadalajara, an operation to capture a Mexican drug lord resulted in the drug lord’s death. Members of his cartel immediately got their shorts in a knot, protesting with country-wide violence. Everyone is stepping very gingerly in Mexico right now, and foreign governments have advised their citizens to avoid doing anything that might annoy cartel members, like buying gasoline or otherwise leaving their house.
Goooaaallll: Guadalajara is scheduled to host several World Cup games this June, as well as some test matches later this winter and spring. Perhaps as a dry run for moving World Cup games elsewhere, some professional soccer matches were postponed, though the big Mexico-Iceland soccer friendly on Wednesday is still a go. For now.
Dry, Technical Matter: Mexico has been torn by drug violence for years, as it tries to comply with US demands to prevent smugglers from producing and moving drugs into the US.
Fly In The Ointment: People try to smuggle drugs into the US because there is a demand for them. If there’s no demand, there’s no smuggling. Good luck with that. We humans have enjoyed chemical mood management since time immemorial, and that is not going to change.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: If drugs were legalized – or at least decriminalized – they wouldn’t be smuggled into the US, they would be imported, like any other legal substance, like scotch or coffee. If we do this, violence associated with drug smuggling ends, though admittedly the cartels might still fight it out over legal access to the lucrative US drug market.
The Bottom Line: All US drug laws do is make criminals out of otherwise honest people. If you do not want to do drugs, that’s OK, we don’t either. In fact, we don’t really being around those who do. But just because something is legal does not make it mandatory. Morality laws have never worked, and the drug war is a complete failure. You and me – we the people – and the rest of the world, deserve better than the ignorance of morality laws.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow only gets six hours of sleep. Today’s Diary.
This dilemma caused us to smile inwardly because being able to consider six hours down short sleep is a luxury some – like those with families, jobs that require real work, et al – do not have…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII issues a papal bull mandating changes to the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar had been established in 45 BC, based on a year lasting 365.25 days, though because an actual year is 365.2425 the calendar had become out of synch. The new calendar dropped ten days, made some leap year changes, and was so thorough that in time it became known as the Gregorian calendar. The calendar was first adopted by European Catholic countries the following December.
In 1980 – The US wins the ice hockey gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Games with a 4-2 victory over Finland in the final game of the medal round. It was the second of three gold medals for the US and was the only silver medal for the Soviets, to go along with seven golds, and Sweden earned the bronze medal. Olympic hockey was decided by a round-robin competition from 1924 through the 1988 Calgary Games, with a preliminary round and bracket play being used in 1920 and since then.
In 1979 – Eddie Rabbit is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the third and final consecutive week with Every Which Way But Loose. The song also went #1 country in Canada, and peaked at #30 on the Hot 100, at #41 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 4th-biggest country song of the year. It was the ninth of 34 Top 10 country hits for Rabbit and was his fourth of 17 #1s.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It is hard to define morality, for each age makes its own definition to suit its temper and sins.
Will & Arial Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. X: Rousseau and Revolution
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Sweden is the only nation besides Canada and the US, to play in the women’s ice hockey Olympic gold medal game. They won the silver medal at the 2006 Turin Games.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many #1s has Eddie Rabbit had on Billboard’s Hot 100? – Answer next time!
