The Daily Dose/April 16, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Juice Spacecraft – European space probe lifts off for eight(8)-year journey to Jupiter…Eight (8) years???…What the hell’s going on here???…Not only that, it took Artemis I three (3) weeks to reach the moon…Us humans are regressing…It took Voyager 1 18 (18)-months to reach Jupiter and Apollo three (3) days to get to the moon.
2. President Joe Biden – Latest president to preside over America’s decline, following up four years of Trump’s ignorance and blather by brilliantly supervising an America that remains a shooting gallery and continues to influence no other nation on the planet.
3. #USA! #USA! – The 3-hole staple…Americans continuing to demand the very worst out of themselves and their county, still rubber-stamping current insanity, with an average of more than one shooting a day with at least four wounded or dead, including six (6) such shootings on Saturday…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters continue to “strongly suspect” US has until this half-century is out to get their arse in gear before country implodes under weight of its ignorance and intolerance.
4. New MLB Rules – Pitch clock and anti-shift rules appear to be doing their work, tho runner on second to start an extra-inning rule continues to give game beer league feel…Rules requiring new pitcher to face three (3) batters and limiting pickoffs to first base, though, restrict a team’s ability to do everything it can to win a game and should be rescinded.
5. Fake News – Click here to enjoy assorted stories that some of the wizards amongst us were believing this week…Courtesy of the AP…That this even a thing should have Americans everywhere standing in the corner hanging their head in shame.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Of course, it’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the weekly sleep figure. Today’s Diary.
49.0 hours for the week, a lower total than we were expecting, considering the strong start we got, but we re-ran the figures and they add up: not even a 50-hour week…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1972 – Apollo 16 – commanded by John Young and manned by Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke – lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the fifth of six manned lunar landings. Young and Duke spent three days on the lunar surface and spent over 20 hours exploring spread over three moonwalks and the crew returned safely to Earth on April 27. Both Young and Mattingly would later fly space shuttle missions, while Duke would retire from NASA later in the year.
In 1895 – The Detroit Tigers, then in the Western League, get their name when a headline in the Detroit Free Press uses the name following a 13-1 win over a local amateur team. The team had been known as the Creams in their first Western League season the year before and, of course, retains the Tigers name today. Earlier, the name Tigers had been used by local military units that had fought in the Civil and Spanish-American wars.
In 1977 – The Eagles are at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the fourth of eight non-consecutive weeks with Hotel California. It was the fifth of 14 chart albums for the group, their second of nine Top 10 albums and their second of six #1s The album produced three chart singles, including the #1s Hotel California and New Kid in Town and was the first Eagles album with guitarist Joe Walsh and the last featuring bassist Randy Meisner.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NBA record for the highest career assists average is held by Magic Johnson, who averaged 11.2 per game from 1979-96.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Of the eight original American League teams, which made the most recent change to its nickname while remaining in the same city? – Answer next time!
