The Daily Dose/Monday, June 21, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 21, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Juneteenth, a day commemorating the end the of slavery in the United States, recently became a national holiday. Yay, because it’s appropriate for this nation to celebrate the day one race stopped holding another race in bondage.
Boo because Juneteenth – June 19, 1865 – was not the actual day slavery ended in the US. Slavery was still legal in both Kentucky and Delaware and would remain so until the ratification of the 13th Amendment the following December.
Dry, Technical Matter: Juneteenth, more accurately, celebrates the day the state of Texas got around to telling its slaves they were free. This came two-and-a-half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation actually freed slaves in the rebel states and History shows Texas slaves were only informed of their freedom because there were sufficient Federal troops in Texas to do it for the state.
And You Wonder Why You Don’t Get Invited To More Parties: This is analogous to the 4th of July, another holiday that celebrates something that happened on another day. The 4th is billed as Independence Day even though the US had actually declared its independence from Great Britain on July 2, when Congress passed the Lee Resolution. The 4th is merely the day Congress got around to signing the Declaration of Independence.
The Bottom Line: It’s good this country has a holiday celebrating the end of slavery and Juneteenth is a nice, symbolic date to do this on. A more accurate date would be December 6, but who needs another holiday in the middle of the holidays? The Leading Off staff would not have presented violent objection to 86ing President’s Day and holding it February, which is both the month of the birth and death of noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass, but overall, America did well.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow covers his arse. Today’s Diary.
And per Standard Sparrow Policy (SPP), yours truly went out of his way to make sure Head Housekeeper Gloria knew ol’ Sparrow authorized zero of these late checkouts…(As it was, Gloria sighed deeply when she saw the list, which for the easy-going GloGlo is an expression of some anger.)
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I grew fond of her company, and at this time being under no religious restraints, I attempted familiarities (another erratum), which she repulsed with proper resentment.
Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography
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The Daily Dose/Sunday, June 20, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 20, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. 25,000 – The number, in years, of documented time spent behind bars by Americans for crimes they did not commit…Blacks, of course, accounted for 58% of lost years while 183 people spent at least 25 years wrongly imprisoned…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” entire nation should hang head in shame, but nobody save for a few fringe elements seem to care…Source: National Registry of Exonerations.
2. Juneteenth– New national holiday commemorates the end of slavery in US but, like 4th of July, commemorates event that didn’t happen on day celebrated, as slavery continued in Delaware and Kentucky until ratification of 13th Amendment a few months later…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” knowledge of crap like this “more or less” explains why they don’t get invited to many parties.
3. Lauren Daigle – Single You Say back in runner-up spot on Billboard Hot Christian Singles chart, after Billboard all-chart record 130 non-consecutive weeks at #1…Song remains in pitched battle with Crowder’s Good God Almighty, now in its second week at top…You Say first released almost three years ago and has spent 149 weeks on chart which – almost incredibly – is 42 weeks less than Oceans by Hillsong United.
4. Donald Trump Supporters – Former president remains a lying sexual predator who believes the moon is part of Mars…And that the Revolution was won by the securing of British airports…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters still asking Trump supporters which of those elements continues to solidify their support.
5. Head Of State Fact Check – Click here for inaccuracies from both US President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. From the Associated Press.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow makes someone weep. Today’s Diary.
…so when a young lady came in asking if we had anything, I was obliged to tell her no…This caused her to start weeping…I am not making that up and there was some zero clue why…Maybe she was ordered to produce a room under penalty of death or maybe this was her first time facing a night of homelessness, but she was starting in on a nice, childish tantrum as she walked out.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…you cannot blame a mirror for what it shows.
Gore Vidal
Empire
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The Diary of a Nobody/June 19
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, June 19
The big news is there was a fight in the lobby Thursday night…Amy said it was a pretty good one, too, with cops coming and people being kicked out and there’s a new policy in place prohibiting the consumption of intoxicants in the lobby…There was video coverage available on the monitor in the back changing/storage/server room in the back office, but yours truly has seen – and broken up – sufficient hotel lobby fights over the years to no longer be thrilled by them.
The Daily Dose/Saturday, June 19, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 19, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – It’s slow at the veterans service office (VSO), so Sparrow farts around in the office next door. Today’s Diary.
It gave me time to work on The Case of the Missing Staplers in the Building Department…I had waltzed in to go to their kitchen and Malea is standing in the center of the office with her hands on her hips…I asked what the deal was and she said no less than four staplers were missing.
– Wow…Four’s a lot.
– Yeah…No kidding.
– I’ll go check the freezer…I’m heading that way.
– Thanks, Sparrow…That should be a big help.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…the ultimate power is not to preside in a white house or open a parliament while seated on a throne but to reinvent the world for everyone by giving them the dreams that you wanted them to dream.
Gore Vidal
Empire
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The Daily Dose/Friday, June 18, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 18, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is completely out of hand at the gym, finally gets the snow tires changed out and is back umpiring again.
Today’s Diary.
For the walk, I took the same route as last time only – and this might be one reason ol’ Sparrow is a complete maniac – in reverse order!!!…I am not making that up…I jaywalked across Main Street, turned left and headed to that T in core trail where those of you keeping score at home know straight will take you to the botanical garden and a right turn will take you to the rodeo grounds.
I turned right at the rodeo grounds…
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…she was about to spread her own wings at last and begin her flight through the long-awaited life she had dreamed of.
Gore Vidal
Empire
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