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Thursday, March 25 Live From The Hotel At the hotel tonite, Robert said he’d heard we have a blog…We told him we don’t, noting that blogging is merely jotting down crap that comes off the top of your head…We write, which is work…Still tho, we showed him both this site and the Sparrow for Congress site, and it was plain he was impressed…He said he was happy to know this because he had thought we were just some hotel nite audit loser, which was pretty funny because, of course, he is too, at another hotel.
The Daily Dose/March 28, 2026 By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off Notes from around the human experience.
HIGHER…STRONGER…GIRLIER: The IOC announced this week that transgender women will not be allowed to compete in future Olympic Games. Prior to this, participation decisions had been made by a sport’s international governing body.
Dry, Technical Matter: While a deep dive into the specifics of this are, thankfully, beyond the scope of this column, starting with the 2028 Los Angeles Games, all female competitors will be subject to a genetics test, either via saliva, cheek swab, or a blood sample, with those failing the test ineligible to compete.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: Despite our general reputation as iconoclasts here – or maybe because of it – we support this. Biological women are entitled to compete against biological women. Those who say transgender women really should’ve been born women are right. But they weren’t; they were born boys, and this gives them an advantage over those born women.
Fly In The Ointment: It should be noted that this is not a very big deal at the Olympic level. The last transgender woman to compete at the Olympics was New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard in Tokyo in 2021. She did not medal.
The Bottom Line: This ruling, of course, does nothing to solve the matter at the national, collegiate, and local levels. The solution to the problem is obvious: have a third gender for competitions, so that trans athletes can compete against similar women. Creating a third gender will cause a lot of people to get their shorts in a knot, though, and, as a practical matter, there may not be enough trans athletes to make this work. But the future always arrives as a minority, and the sooner this happens, the sooner no one will give it a second thought.
…7.0 hours for the day and 44.5 hours for the week, figures regular readers of this crap know are both pretty solid heading into Saturday’s finale.
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In 1979 – The Three Mile Island nuclear accident begins near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with a coolant leak at the Unit 2 reactor. It was followed by several other minor equipment failures, later resulting in a partial meltdown of Unit 2’s core. Despite the partial meltdown, there was not a breach of the reactor’s containment structure, averting a public health crisis and there were no deaths. Unit 1 of the facility closed in 2019.
In 1891 – Edward Levy of Great Britain wins the first world weightlifting title in London. Levy defeated six other European champions, and this remains his only world title. The competition consisted of presses and repetitions using 56- and 84-pound dumbbells, though research on the competition’s specific judging was inconclusive. Weightlifting was contested at the 1896 and 1904 Summer Olympics, and has been a part of every Olympic program since the 1920 Antwerp Games.
In 1981 – REO Speedwagon is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the sixth of 15 non-consecutive weeks with Hi Infidelity. It was the group’s seventh chart album, their first of three Top 10s, and remains their only #1. The album also peaked at #6 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s #1 album of 1981 and its 39th-biggest of 1982. The album produced four chart singles, including the #1 Keep On Loving You.
Some Philosophy Crap The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Ignorance is not bliss, it is unconsciousness and slavery. John Dewey
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions Knowledge is power.
Elvis Presley had 19 #1 songs in Canada, between the CHUM radio and RPM charts.
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Thursday, March 25 Not A Hard Day’s Night Officially, we didn’t steal money tonight at the General Hospital Security Department (GHSD), but neither Dave nor I were all that busy, and even the things we did do were done at a very leisurely pace.
The Daily Dose/March 27, 2026 By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off Notes from around the human experience.
FABULOUS: After a month, we have decided to send ground troops to Iran. To what end? This war already made no sense: Iran was in no way, shape, or form an imminent threat to us. After a month of aerial bombardment, they are even less of a threat
Dry, Technical Matter: Members of the 82nd Airborne are already in route or will be soon enough. The plan is for them to conduct specific missions and not general ground combat, but war being war and Trump being Trump, there is no reason to take that seriously.
Stop Us If You’ve Heard This Before: This war is as illegal as it is immoral. It was not declared by Congress – just like every other war we’ve fought since World War II – as mandated in the Constitution, and for the love of all that is sacred, we bombed schoolgirls, something we should be condemned for every hour on the hour by every thinking person on this planet.
Elect The Clown, Watch The Circus: We elected this. We knew Donald Trump was an ignorant liar, a man of no moral or intellectual substance, and twice we’ve elected him president. We deserve everything we’re getting. We’ve settled for idiocy when we deserve leadership. Everyone in this country has something to answer for: the administration that bombed schoolgirls, and we, the people who elected it.
The Bottom Line: There is no way this ends well. America has a long history of long, drawn-out wars in the region, and those were wars that actually had some semblance of a plan, something sorely lacking in our war with Iran. America has been at war for 208 of her 249 years of independence, and no nation has survived perpetual war. America will not be the first.
The big news is we are all set for the Minor Party’s convention in the big city.next month…And we will be spending a nite at the 5-star resort, too…I am not making either of those things up…
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In 1977 – Two aircraft collide on a foggy runway at an airport in the Canary Islands, off the coast of northwest Africa. A KLM Boeing 747 had begun its takeoff run when it collided with the starboard side of a Pan Am Boeing 747 that was on the runway. 583 people died, and only 61 survived. An investigation showed the KLM aircraft was under the impression it had permission to take off, and after some initial resistance, KLM acknowledged its crew was responsible for the crash. It remains the deadliest accident in aviation history.
In 1945 – The Oklahoma State Cowboys win the NCAA basketball championship, defeating the New York University Violets 49-45 at Madison Square Garden. It was the first of two titles for the Cowboys and was the first of three runner-up finishes for the Violets, the last two in Division III. The tournament featured eight teams, and a third-place game wasn’t played. NYU disbanded its team in 1971, and returned as a Division III team in 1983.
In 1961 – Elvis Presley is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with Surrender. The song also went to #1 in four other countries – including Italy and Great Britain – and was Billboard’s 51st-biggest song of the year. It was the 15th of 17 #1 songs for Presley, a mark now good for third on the all-time Hot 100 list, behind Mariah Carey (19) and the Beatles (20).
Some Philosophy Crap The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It is not the first steps but the last ones that are most difficult. Jean-Francois Steiner Treblinka
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions Knowledge is power.
The Pac-12 and the ACC each have won 15 NCAA men’s basketball titles, the most of any conference.
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Our own theory when receiving any kind of expert instruction is to keep our mouth shut, and this is even more so with tai chi because the focus is on quiet and spirituality…This includes butting in with questions because our experience is our question will, invariably, be answered…
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In 1997 – San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputies find 39 dead bodies, all mass suicide victims, at a home in northern San Diego County. The dead were members of a cult known as Heaven’s Gate and died in three groups between March 22 and 26. The deaths were designed to coincide with the closest point of approach of the Hale-Bopp comet, which was believed to have a spacecraft following it which would transport their souls to heaven. Their website is still active, though it does not appear to have been updated since before the suicides.
In 1979 – The Michigan State Spartans defeat the Indiana State Sycamores 75-64 to win the NCAA Division I basketball title at the Special Events Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It was the first of two NCAA titles for the Spartans (2000) and remains the only title game appearance for the Sycamores. It was the last Final Four played on an on-campus arena, the only one to feature 40 teams, the first where three officials were used, and with 40 million viewers remains the most-watched college basketball game ever.
In 1977 – Daryl Hall and John Oates area at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with Rich Girl. It was the fourth of 34 Top 40 hits for the group, their third of 16 Top 10 songs, and their first of six #1 songs. The song also peaked at #64 on Billboard’s soul chart and was their 23rd-biggest song of the year. The song was written by Hall, who based it on a man his girlfriend knew. The gender was later changed because “rich girl” sounded better than “rich guy”.
Some Philosophy Crap The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Love is a perpetual act of selfless devotion. Jim Bishop
The Day Christ Died
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions Knowledge is power.
The highest speed a New York City subway achieves is 55 mph.
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Today’s Diary entry is with Sparrow’s compliments. Enjoy.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life… Tuesday, March 24 The Night At The Hotel More misfits in the lobby tonite…This time they were members of a band, plus a couple of stragglers, playing cards, and there were about ten people at the back table…We have some zero clue what they were playing, tho…We’re not Mr Vegas – tho, perhaps, one time we were – but offhand we couldn’t think of a card game for ten people that didn’t involve the removal of clothes, but game rules are hardly our lookout here…We’re a nite auditor, not a pit boss…BEsides, they’re musicians who spend a lot of time on the road, and if they have a ten-player card game, more power to them.
The Daily Dose/March 24, 2026 By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off Notes from around the human experience.
GAYLON FOR CONGRESS: VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: If it’s an even-numbered year, it must mean yours truly is running for office. And we are, pleased to announce our candidacy for the Colorado Libertarian Party’s nomination from the 2nd Congressional District.
Dry, Technical Matter: We did make some noise about running for the party’s US Senate nomination. It would not be the first time. In 2014, we earned the nomination, but missed out on two other occasions. Once, we dropped out at the convention in order to avoid a primary and accepted the District 3 nomination, and the other time we lost a primary. It’s important to be on the November ballot so, after some discussion with party officials, we decided to run for Congress.
Common Sense In Uncommon Times: We are the only announced candidate for the 2nd District nomination, though that doesn’t really mean anything. Another candidate could show up at the convention, or the convention could get its collective shorts in a knot and reject my candidacy, but neither of those is likely to happen. It is accurate to say we are the presumptive nominee.
Dry, Technical Matter: Longtime supporters no doubt remember we used to be in the 3rd District, but that changed after the 2020 census. The old district ran along the western third of the state, from the Wyoming border to the Four Corners, then out to the Great Plains. It was the largest Congressional District in the country that wasn’t an entire state, and it was actually easier to campaign for the US Senate than for Congress.
The Bottom Line: We’re not the odds on favorite, but the GOP really isn’t much of a factor in the district, and all Democrats, including our incumbent, are guilty of doing nothing while a man of no moral or intellectual substance destroys our country. So send me some money. If you’re philosophically on board with Gaylon For Congress, I deserve your support. If you’re not and you know me, send me some anyway. We have a chance to make some noise this year.
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They’re that fancy European brand, too, a hideous fluorescent lite blue color, but I recall that being the best of the lot in the 17E shoe our feet demand…
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In 1900 – New York City mayor Robert Van Wyck breaks ground on the city’s first subway line. The first line opened in October 1904, from City Hall in lower Manhattan to 145th Street and Broadway in Harlem, with lines going to the Bronx and Brooklyn opening later. Today the system has 36 lines, 423 stations serving four boroughs, and carried 2.6 million riders last year. Elevated lines had been in use since the 1870s.
In 1936 – The Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons play the longest game in NHL history, in a 1-0 Red Wings victory in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup semifinals. The Red Wings won on a goal by Mud Bruneteau 16 minutes and 30 seconds into the sixth overtime, and won the best-of-five series in three games. It was the second six-overtime game in NHL history, the first coming on April 3, 1933 when Toronto defeated Boston 4 minutes and 46 seconds into the sixth extra period.
In 1979 – Anne Murray is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the first of three consecutive weeks with I Just Fall In Love Again. It was the sixth of 24 Top 10 country hits for Murray and her first of ten #1s. The song also went #1 country and pop in her native Canada, peaked at #12 on the Hot 100, and was Billboard’s #1 country song of the year. Her brother Bruce also had several Canadian hits as well
Some Philosophy Crap The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Men under the influence of interest or passion often delude themselves thoughtlessly, and do not always acknowledge even to themselves the motives upon which they really act. RogerTaney
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions Knowledge is power.
Barbra Streisand has won ten Grammy awards, eight competitive and two honorary.
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