The Daily Dose/December 3, 2022
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 – Though there is still one more sleep session remaining in the week, Sparrow is already at the magical 50 hour mark. Today’s Diry.
10.5 hours for the day and 50.0 hours for the week, a Friday record with the week’s finale – the Saturday Sleep Session – still to come.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1800 – The Electoral College gives 73 electoral votes to both Vice President Thomas Jefferson and former US Senator Aaron Burr, who were actually the Democratic-Republican Party’s presidential and vice-presidential nominees. Under laws of the time, electors cast two ballots with the office not specified, with one elector usually abstaining or voting for someone else to no two candidates received an equal number of electoral votes. Both candidates received more electoral votes than President John Adams and Jefferson won the contingent election in the House of Representatives the following February.
In 1995 – The US wins the Davis Cup when Pete Sampras defeats Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 at Olympic Stadium in Moscow. The win gave the US team an insurmountable 3-1 lead, with the Russians winning the final singles match. It was the 31st of 32 Davis Cup titles for the US and was the third and most recent runner-up finish for the Russians, who have also won three titles. The other members of the US team were Jim Courier and Todd Martin.
In 1977 – Linda Ronstadt is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the first of five consecutive weeks with Simple Dreams. It was the seventh of 37 chart albums for Ronstadt, her fourth of ten Top 10 albums and her second of three #1s. The album also went to #1 in Australia and Canada, peaked at #15 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 8th-biggest album of 1978. The album produced four Top 40 hits, including the Top 10s Blue Bayou and It’s So Easy.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The president pointed out his oath of office required him to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. This duty overrode any specific constitutional constraints on executive action.
James McPherson
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The song that has spent the most weeks on the Hot 100 is Heat Waves by Glass Animals, which spent 91 non-consecutive weeks in the Hot 100 from January 16, 2021, to this past October 22. It spent five weeks at #1 and 37 weeks in the Top 10.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many times has the US Senate elected the vice president? – Answer next time!
