The Daily Dose/Friday, July 12, 2024
The Daily Dose/Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Daily Dose/July 11, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
FLY IN THE OINTMENT: We recently had to put our beloved cat down. The usual feelings attended this. She was sick and weighed four-and-half pounds, and there was no reason for her to suffer anymore.
Dry, Technical Matter: The vet injected something or other into her and she was dead within a few seconds. As far as is humanly known, her death was painless.
Here We Go: This got us thinking: what human facing a painful, terminal end should not be entitled to a swift, painless end? Currently, physician-assisted is legal in eleven states. This means it is not legal in 39 states. Worldwide, it’s legal in ten countries.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: It should be legal everywhere. Why should a physically suffering, mentally competent person not be allowed to legally get some help in ending a life that is beyond tolerance?
Here We Go II: If your religious beliefs or personal moral code forbid assisted suicide, don’t kill yourself and, by all means, decline invitations to help someone requesting it. If you choose to live your life out to its natural end, more power to you. If you’re a doctor who is not comfortable helping someone die, yay for you. You are a professional free to offer whatever services to the public you want.
The Bottom Line: We understand it is human nature to want to keep living as long as possible and to want that for others. After all, we only have one life and it seems perverse to end it unnaturally. However, when someone only has pain, physical incapacity, and, perhaps, embarrassment to look forward to, it is wrong to deny them a legal, assisted death. Those opposed to it do not have to take part.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets off a funny. Today’s Diary.
Like a lot of things, this is neither completely true nor completely false, and it was funny and was delivered with typical Sparrow precision, and the gal there gave it a decent, if not great, laff…
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On This Date
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In 1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as chief justice of the United States. Taft presided over a generally conservative court that was able to determine its workload following the passage of the Judicial Act of 1925. Taft served until 1930, when he resigned a month before his death. Taft was president from 1909-13 and remains the only person to hold both positions.
In 1976 – JoAnne Carner wins the US Women’s Open, shooting a 5-over 76 to defeat defending champion Sandra Palmer in an 18-hole playoff. It was the second US Open title for Carner and these remain her only two LPGA major wins. Previously, Carner had won the US Girl’s Junior and US Women’s Amateur titles and was the first person to win three USGA individual titles. The others to do it are Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Hall of Fame amateur Carol Semple.
In 1981 – Earl Thomas Conley is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with Fire and Smoke. It was the second of 22 Top 10 country hits for Conley, his first of 18 #1s, and was Billboard’s #1 country song of the year. The song spent 19 weeks in the survey, including 14 weeks in the Top 40 and seven weeks in the Top 10, figures that are rather high for the era.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…to read one’s own heart and mind in solitary contemplation seemed to him to promise more wisdom than all objects and all books.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Wilbert Robinson (1892) and Rennie Stennett (1975) hold the major league record for most hits in a 9-inning game with seven.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many chief justices of the United States had previously served as an associate justice? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/Wednesday, July 10, 2024
The Daily Dose/July 10, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow runs into someone. Today’s Diary.
You will never – never! – guess who we ran into there…
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On This Date
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In 1850 – Millard Fillmore takes the oath of office as president of the United States one day after assuming office after the death of John Tyler. In keeping with custom, Tyler’s cabinet submitted their resignations, and Fillmore surprised everyone by accepting them. Fillmore served until his term expired in 1853, was not nominated for reelection by the Whig Party, and remains their last president.
In 1932 – Johnny Burnett of the Cleveland Indians establishes the major league record for most hits in a game in an 18-17, 18-inning loss to the Philadelphia Athletics. Burnett had nine hits to break the record of seven established by Wilbert Robinson in 1892. Philadelphia pitcher Ed Rommel – pitching the last 17 innings – gave up 29 hits to establish a record for most hits allowed in an extra-inning game that still stands. The game was tied 15-15 at the end of nine innings.
In 2021 – BTS is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the sixth of ten non-consecutive weeks with Butter. The song went to #1 in nine other countries – including Hungary, Colombia, and their native South Korea – peaked at #3 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s 11th-biggest song of the year. The song would move in and out of the top spot three times and even dropped down to #8 before moving back up. It was the third of five #1 songs for the group.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
If you know what you are doing
You will do what is necessary and stop there.
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching #30
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Algeria is the oldest country in Africa. It gained sovereignty in 202 BC
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who holds the major league record for most hits in a 9-inning game? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The Daily Dose/July 9, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
ONE, TWO, THREE O’CLOCK, FOUR O’CLOCK ROCK: History is dotted with events over the centuries whose significance separates everything preceding from everything following. Today is the 69th anniversary of one of those dates.
Sit On It, Potsie: It was on July 9, 1955, that the Rock Era in American popular music began when Rock Around the Clock went to #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart, its first of eight consecutive weeks at the top.
For The Record: The Rock Era in England began later in the year when the song went to #1 in Great Britain. It spent five weeks at the top and was their #1 selling single of the decade.
Dry, Technical Matter: Rock Around the Clock would fall off and then reappear on Billboard pop charts several more times, spending 42 weeks on either the Best Sellers chart or the Hot 100, then a record but now a mark of no particular statistical significance.
Lights…Camera…Action: The song was featured in the movie The Blackboard Jungle, which was based on a book by Evan Hunter whose pen name – Ed McBain – some might remember. It also featured the film debut of several prominent actors, including one Jameel Farah, who later changed his name to Jamie Farr.
I Like Ike: America was still pretty laid-back then, so it wasn’t as if Haley started a trend. The usual ballads and big band songs followed Rock Around the Clock at #1, and Elvis had the next rock and roll #1, Heartbreak Hotel, the following April.
The Bottom Line: Rock Around the Clock provides a line of demarcation separating everything that came before from everything that followed like few other events. The birth of Christ, the invention of gunpowder, and man’s first landing on the moon come immediately to mind. The future, as it tends to do, will produce more landmark events, of course, but Rock Around the Clock will remain on the list for a long time to come, even if – when – we discover alien life somewhere.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow – impetuously and, perhaps, prematurely – starts looking at cats. Today’s Diary.
A 5-year-old named Bandit and another named Cuddles looked promising, but it’s probably to soon…
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On This Date
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In 2011 – South Sudan gains its independence from Sudan. Independence followed a civil war that ended in 2005 and several years of autonomy within Sudan. A civil war began later in the year that lasted until 2020 and in 2017 a famine affected almost 5 million people. Today South Sudan is the second-least developed country behind Somalia and remains the most recently created sovereign state on the planet.
In 2006 – Italy wins the World Cup, defeating France 5-3 on penalty kicks at Olympic Stadium in Berlin. It was the fourth and most recent title for Italy and was the first of two runner-up finishes for France to go along with two titles. France’s Zinedine Zidane was ejected in extra time for head butting an opponent, the fourth of five World Cup Finals exp[ulsions. The game was tied 1-1 after both regulation and extra time
In 1977 – Alan O’Day is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Undercover Angel. It was the first chart single for O’Day and only later #73 hit prevented him from being one of the few artist whose only Hot 100 hit went to #1. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #43 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 9th-biggest song of the year. It was the second #1 song written by O’Day, who earlier Helen Reddy’s 1974 hit Angie Baby.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…we have to forget our theories and feel the fact…submersion in the flow of nature is all-important. Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Good Times by Chic was Billboard’s #1 soul song in 1979. It spent six consecutive weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What is the oldest country in Africa, dated from the acquisition of sovereignty? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/Monday, July 8, 2024
Valued Readers,
We’re taking a day off. The past couple of days have been hard, and we’re spent. Everything will return.