The Daily Dose/May 1, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
AND SO IT STARTS…: The Republican Party’s plan to turn our country into an autocracy took its latest step Thursday when Louisiana postponed its Congressional primaries. It did this to take advantage of this week’s US Supreme Court opinion upholding a lower court ruling that disallowed specially drawn Congressional districts that favored Black voters.
Dry, Technical Matter: The postponement will allow the GOP to redraw Louisiana’s Congressional districts to eliminate historically Black districts before the election is reinstated. They are rigging the election right before our eyes.
America…The Soviet Union On Line 2: This is bad, friends. Think about it: a state has postponed an election for the sole reason of getting more members of the ruling party elected. This happens in banana republics and African countries that stage military coups. This does not happen in America. Or should not. Until it does.
This Is How Dictatorships Are Started: And you don’t have to be Leonid Brezhnev to strongly suspect this will not be the only time the Republicans will do this. They will do whatever you and me – we the people – let them get away with. Those who think they will not try to cancel November’s midterms or void unacceptable results are deluding themselves.
The Bottom Line: A hundred years from now, all new people will marvel that we gave the bullying and ignorance of Donald Trump the time of day. And this is what his bullying and ignorance have gotten us: a Congressional primary being postponed to get more seats for the ruling party. This is wrong, but this is America right now. The GOP will get away with whatever we let them. It is up to you and me – we the people – to say no.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow and David talk about other life in the universe. Today’s Diary.
…we told him our opinion is a case can be made either way for there being other life in the universe.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1997 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election, with Tony Blair being elected prime minister. Labour won decisively, winning 418 seats in the House of Commons, while the Conservative Party took 165 and the Liberal Democrats took 46. Blair replaced John Major as prime minister, and would serve until June 2007, when he was replaced Gordon Brown.
In 1920 – The Brooklyn Robins and the Boston Braves establish a new major league record for the longest game in a 1-1 tie at Braves Field. The teams played 26 innings before the game was called because of darkness, and broke the record of 24 innings, done in 1906, when the Philadelphia Athletics defeated the Boston Americans 4-1, and the record still stands. The game was not picked up from that point, and was declared a tie. Boston’s Charlie Pick remains the only player to go 0-for-11 in a big league game.
In 1982 – Alabama is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with Mountain Music. The song also went #1 country in Canada, and peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart, and was Billboard’s 24th-biggest country song of the year. It was the sixth of 32 #1 country songs for the group and band member Randy Owen said the song took him three years to write.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers was the leading scorer in the 1969 NBA Finals, averaging 37.9 points per game.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When did prime minster officially become the name of the principal minister of the crown and the head of the British cabinet? – Answer next time!
