The Daily Dose/May 27, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Editor’s Note: This item ran in 2024. It is still relevant.
QUOTE THAT SUCKER: The inspiration for this segment came from today’s Some Philosophy Crap quote. It’s from Randy Shilts’s book And The Band Played On, which chronicles the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.
Back To The Future: This is happening in America right now. We are in the ninth year of Donald Trump’s prominence, a man of no intellectual, political, or moral substance. He is about to be nominated for president for the third time because his followers prefer to lower themselves to his standard than demand better of their candidates and themselves.
Fly In The Ointment: Sane people are taking this, too. Very few are willing to call Trump – who believes, among other things, that the moon is part of Mars and that Colorado borders Mexico – the idiot he is. His claims the 2020 election was stolen is given credence instead of being dismissed, as are his claims that his 91 criminal indictments are a government plot.
FunFact: Trump, honestly, is so witless he shouldn’t even have made the primaries in 2016. A real media would’ve dismissed him out of hand, but Trump meant ratings and clicks, so they ushered him right into the primaries, the nomination, and the White House. A media paced by Walter Cronkite and Woodward and Bernstein – not to mention any one of a dozen or so journalists of the era – would’ve had Trump out of the race by the weekend.
The Bottom Line: We are reaping what we have sown. America is in its seventh decade of TV being the focal point of our American life, and the prominence of a witless blatherskite like Trump is our reward. But we’re in a post-thought America now, preferring to be well-entertained and well-fed rather than give substantive thought to substantive issues. As a result, we were unable to produce a competent response to COVID, and we haven’t done anything great since we left the moon in 1972. A hundred years from now, all new people will look back at this time and wonder why sane people didn’t demand better.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow takes it easy at work. Today’s Diary.
We were of a mind for a leisurely weekend at work and when ol’ Sparrow is hell-bent on leisure, stand back because he usually gets it…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1798 – British prime minister William Pitt the Younger and his political rival George Tierney engage in a duel outside of London. Neither man was much of a shot, and both missed with their first shots. Pitt deliberately shot in the air with his next shot, with seconds then intervening, insisting that “perfect honor” had been restored to both sides. Tierney had challenged Pitt following a perceived insult during a House of Commons debate.
In 1937 – Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants extends his major league record for most consecutive wins in a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Hubbell pitched the eighth and ninth innings, and Mel Ott’s 9th-inning home run provided the go-ahead run in Hubbell’s 24th straight win. Hubbell’s streak ended with a loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers on May 31 and he had broken the mark of 20 straight wins established by Rube Marquard from 1911-12 and his record still stands.
In 1972 – The Chi Lites are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Oh Girl. The song also peaked at #14 and #5 in separate Great Britain chart runs, spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 13th-biggest song of the year. It was the third of five Top 40 pop hits for the group, their second of two Top 10s, and was their only #1 pop hit and their second and final #1 soul hit.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.
Randy Shilts
And The Band Played On
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The longest losing streak in major league history is 26 games, by the 1889 Louisville Colonels in the American Association.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
William Pitt was the first of two British prime ministers to engage in a duel. Who was the second? – Answer next time!
