The Daily Dose/August 28, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
- Student Loan Forgiveness – Pay your debts, dammit…And if the government is going to do this, why not forgive all student debt under the guise of getting the economy moving again???…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” they’d support a plan to forgive all VA mortgages.
- Student Loan Forgiveness II – And why is the government in the student loan business anyway???…This is why college tuition had and is skyrocketing: if you had a business and your customer’s costs were guaranteed by the government, you’d jack up prices, too.
- USA! USA! – The 3-hole staple…Country still far closer to the oblivion that awaits it than the prosperity, influence it once had because no nation can survive perpeltual war, deep social divide, and an utter lack of national vision – not to mention Donald Trump and his supporters – forever…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” America has until half-century is out to show it can govern itself before someone comes in and does it for us.
- Major League Baseball – Game continues to foist lousy baseball on fan(s), with no less than five (5) teams playing less than .400 ball this late in the season for the first time since 1998…Complete inability of pitchers to hit strike zone key, of course, but batters only putting 24 in play per game nowadays ain’t helping either.
- Fake News – The mosst reliable fake news out there…Click here for a recap of real fake news, things the wizards among us were actually believing…Courtesy of the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Yes, it is Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets an email congratulating the staff on the number of reward club signups. Today’s Diary.
It was kind of funny because emails like this are never sent and we strongly suspect Q only sent it so he could demonstrate his commanding lead in the rewards club signup race because the latest tallies aren’t put up on the back office whiteboard anymore.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1867 – The US gains possession of the Midway Atoll when a Navy captain takes possession of it. From 1941 until 1993 the atoll hosted a US Navy air facility and there are now about 40 residents, mainly US government employees and contract workers. Though part of the Hawaiian Archipelago, Midway is not part of the state of Hawaii, and remains an unorganized and unincorporated US territory. It observes Samoan time and the atoll had been uninhabited until the 19th century.
In 1972 – North Korea wins its first ever Olympic gold medal when Ri Ho-jun wins the 50-meter rifle prone competition. Ri scored 599 points out of a possible 600 to defeat Victor Auer of the US and Nicolae Rotaru of Romania by one point, with Auer getting the silver medal due to a better score in the final stage. It was the first Summer Olympic appearance for the country and North Korea has since won 15 further gold medals. The country had first appeared in the Olympics at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games.
In 1965 – Sonny and Cher is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third and final consecutive week with I Got You Babe. It was the first chart single for the duo, their first of five Top 10 hits and remains their only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain, and peaked at #19 on Billboard’s soul chart, their only soul chart appearance either as either a duo or solo acts. Cher would later have four #1 songs as a solo act.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…they decided that to eat state corn in the city was better than to sweat on the land…Sloth combined with superstition…Wealth mounted, but did not spread.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. III: Caesar to Christ
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The man who has won the most consecutive US Open tennis titles in the Open Era is Roger Federer of Switzerland, who won five consecutive between 2004 and 2008.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What’s the westernmost point in the United States, by direction of travel? – Answer next time!
