The Daily Dose/March 13, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
USA! USA!: All war deaths are tragic. It is even more so in unnecessary wars. Iran posed no strategic or imminent threat to the US. We’re attacking them anyway, and every single death in this war – on both sides – is a slaughter.
Dry, Technical Matter: Included in these deaths are the 170 slaughtered at a girls’ school in southern Iran on February 28. A girls’ school! Friends, this is not a war, it is – like Israel’s attack on Gaza – a genocide.
Write This Down: Attacking a school and killing children is a war crime.
Yeah, Right: Both the US and Israel denied responsibility, but no one, including you and me – we the people – should believe that. The school is located adjacent to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base and was once part of it. It is reasonable to conclude the US had outdated target information, despite the fact the school had been separate from the base for at least ten years.
The Bottom Line: America has been at war for 207 of its 249 years of independence, and this is hardly the first unnecessary war we’ve fought; it is merely the latest. And the media – as it has for ten years – seems content to treat Trump’s lies, blather, and incompetence as just more news stories. No one is telling Trump no, this is madness. We deserve better than this – we deserve a government that does not attack girls’ schools – but we are not going to get better until we demand it on Election Day.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has bad news on the home repair front. Today’s Diary.
The news on our cabin’s heater isn’t good: it will need to be replaced…Something or another is cracked, and it can’t be repaired; the whole unit has to be replaced…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill passed by Congress prohibiting the return of escaped slaves to their owners. Known as the Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves, it applied to members of the Union army or navy, with officers dismissed from service after conviction by a court-martial. Prior to the act, escaped slaves found behind Union lines had been used as camp workers or returned to their masters.
In 1961 – Floyd Patterson retains his world heavyweight boxing title, knocking out Ingemar Johansson in the 6th round in Miami Beach. It was the first defense for Patterson, who had defeated Johansson for the title the year before, after losing it to him in 1959. It was the second time Patterson held the title, and he would lose it to Sonny Liston in 1962.
In 1954 – Jo Stafford is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the first of three non-consecutive weeks with Make Love To Me. It was the 19th of 29 Top 10 hits for Stafford and her fourth of five #1s in a chart career that ran from 1943-57. The song also went to #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Juke Boxes charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The Billboard country singles chart record for most consecutive #1 songs is 16, by Sonny James between 1967 and 1971. It is the Billboard all-chart record as well.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the Speaker of the House in 1862? – Answer next time!
