The Daily Dose/September 27, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
IN DIXIELAND I’LL MAKE MY STAND: Alabama executed Geoffrey West, 50, Thursday night. This despite official Daily Dose opposition to the death penalty.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: America has executed innocent people. You can’t really argue with that, and our opinion is the death penalty should be abolished for that reason.
Back On Message: Guilt wasn’t the issue here, though, because West admitted his. There are, though, other aspects of his execution we found interesting. You might, too.
Leading Off: West was executed with nitrogen gas, a method Alabama started using last year and is also in use in Louisiana, which outlaws the method for use on dogs and cats, unless they’ve already been sedated. Multiple witnesses to these executions report condemned men gulping and struggling. It took 26 minutes for West to be pronounced dead.
Dry, Technical Matter: Family members of West’s victim pleaded to have his life spared, noting that another death wouldn’t help their family, a pretty good point. Alabama’s governor denied the request.
Go In Peace, Serve The Lord: Finally, West advised he had been baptized into the Catholic Church and was “at peace because I know where I am going”. This was always one of our objections to organized religion: that someone could kill, but repent and end up in the same heaven I’m going to. It’s one of the reasons we no longer hold religious beliefs. I mean, who would want to go to heaven and see Hitler? You would likely end up wondering to what end your good life had been lived.
The Bottom Line: Though we can’t whine about an innocent man being executed here, our opinion is that we Americans deserve better than killing people as punishment for crimes. Nobody in Alabama is safer because West is dead, and it would’ve been cheaper to keep him in prison for the rest of his life than it was to kill him. Americans are not demanding better right now, though.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Tucker has a funny line at the hospital. Today’s Diary.
In fact, it was his funniest yet, funnier even than the “showcase” line when Asher and Johhnie were going to be the officers working when the new vendors visited last month…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania, becomes the capital of the United States for one day. The 2nd Continental Congress had fled Philadelphia after it was captured by the British and convened at the Lancaster courthouse, and the following day, Congress fled to York, about 25 miles to the west. The town also served as Pennsylvania’s capital from 1799-1812 and was originally known as Hickory Town.
In 1930 – Bobby Jones becomes the only golfer to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in a calendar year when he wins the US Amateur at Merion Golf Club near Philadelphia. Jones defeated Eugene Homans 8 & 7 (eight holes up with seven remaining) to win his fifth and final US Amateur title and his 13th and final Grand Slam title. Earlier in the year, Jones had won the US Open, the British Open, and the British Amateur.
In 1980 – Diana Ross is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the fourth and final consecutive week with Upside Down. The song also went to #1 in eight other countries – including New Zealand, Norway, and Italy – spent four weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 18th-biggest song of the year. It was the fifth of six #1 songs for Ross, a total that does include twelve #1s with the Supremes.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Granted that we cannot prove the existence of heaven, how cruel it is to take from the people this hope that solaces them in their grief and sustains them in their defeats!
Will & Arial Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. X: Rousseau and Revolution.
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
There are four stanzas in The Star-Spangled Banner.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many states have held US capitals? – Answer next time!
