The Daily Dose/March 6, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
USA! USA!: This week Texas and Mississippi both announced they will be lifting their mandates requiring their residents to wear masks. The decisions are being met with the usual bickering we get about everything in America now.
Now Hear This: It’s important to note this is not an order not to wear a mask and go breathe on everyone, it is merely the removal of a government regulation to wear one, something a government doesn’t really have the right to do in the first place.
Dry, Technical Matter: The fact we’ve tolerated our government mandating things like mask wearing and business closures is an interesting insight into our country. The America that once shed the yoke of British oppression is long gone. We comply now.
And You Wonder Why You Don’t Get Invited To More Paries: But this is hardly a bulletin. Subjects have been yielding to their rulers since time immemorial. It’s the way the world is built.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: Please, wear a mask because we ain’t out of the COVID woods yet. It’s still a reasonable precaution to take and we will wear ours as long as we damn well please.
The Bottom Line: Had America not been a partisan, fractured and bickering mess, we think it’s likely that a year ago America would have collectively decided that wearing masks was a reasonable precaution to take and while there is no way of knowing for sure, it’s possible the number of COVID deaths in America would be a tenth of what they are now. We all have blood on our hands.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow does not appear to be lusted after anymore. Today’s Diary.
The big news at the hot springs is that for the second consecutive Friday those two old(er) ladies who have the hots for me stayed away from the hot spring I was in…I have some zero clue why…Maybe they’ve lost their ardor or maybe their grandchildren counseled them or something…I don’t know…All I know is I’m not complaining.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 662 – The Islamic prophet Muhammed makes his final sermon, on Mount Arafat, a bit east of Mecca. A variety of accounts of the sermon exist, with Muhammed talking about, among other things, the importance of Muslims following the teachings he had set forth in his writings, not following certain pre-Islamic customs and the ending of some blood feuds. Muhammed, then in his early 60s, would die in June.
In 1973 – Lary Hisle of the Minnesota Twins becomes the first designated hitter in major league history, in a spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, going 2-for-5, with two home runs and seven RBIs. The American League had adopted the DH, following its use in some minor leagues, though to this day the National League has, except for 2020, declined to do so. Hisle would appear in no games as a designated hitter during the 1973 regular season.
In 1976 – The Miracles are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Love Machine (Part 1). It was the 30th and final Top 40 hit for the group, their seventh and final Top 10 hit and their second and final #1 song (The Tears of a Clown, two weeks, 1970). The song also peaked at #3 in Great Britain and at #5 on Billboard’s soul chart. The distinctive growling at the start was sung by Miracle Bobby Rogers.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
‘Cause you ain’t done nothin’ new…Time you settled down and made de best of things de way de is…
Alex Haley
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Winston Churchill was British prime minister for eight-and-a-half years, from May 1940 until July 1945 and then from October 1951 until April 1955.
Today’s Stumper
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