While dealing with all of this "Is he a racist" stuff, one minor point seems to have gotten overlooked by a lot of people in the confusion. In his rambling remarks, he referred to himself as the owner of the Trump Winery in Virginia. Officially, the winery is owned by his son (remember how he was going to divest…

Donald J. Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

"Some of my best friends are Jews." — Charles Dickens

Boorman has always been a little bit, shall we say, eccentric, but I agree that if there's only going to be one potent man left on the planet, it will probably be Sean Connery.

I hope they take inspiration from Goldfinger. "You expect me to talk?" "No, I expect you to die."

Stop! Arrêt!

Hell, I'm pining for the days when Tom Lehrer could say, "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."

He may have hair upon his chest, but sister, so does Lassie.

I realize that this whole "Nazis love their paperwork" thing was meant as a joke, but it's true. For example, the only evidence brought by the prosecution at the Einsatzgruppen trials was the documents prepared by the Nazis themselves that provided detailed accounts of the roughly 1 million Jews killed by the…

I was going to say that the failure of Trump's chosen candidate to win the Alabama Republican Senate primary outright was a good sign, until I realized that his main opponent was the judge who was suspended for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument or to recognize same-sex marriages. . . .

It’s the sort of stuff a self-loathing Charlie Kaufman stand-in might come up with in a Charlie Kaufman script—like, you know, the protagonist’s literally blind girlfriend.

What, no "How Deep is Your Love" from Saturday Night Fever? Are we indeed living in a world of fewls?

The story is a riff on the old saw about how 50,000 monkeys with typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. In this case, someone invents a device that when you hook up a monkey to it, it can use the monkey's brain to calculate the way a piece of literature will turn out once you give it the…

Isaac Asimov also calls attention to it in his 1953 short story "The Monkey's Finger."

Well, they had added 10 more teams when the AFL merged with the NFL, but IIRC, the assumption of the "we'll force the NFL to merge with us" owners was that only the most financially sound teams would end up in the NFL — kind of like the absorption of three of the eight AAFC teams. After all, the NFL had just added…

Is it just my dirty mind, or does "Captain Phasma" sound less like the name of a Star Wars character than it does the name of a character in a porn parody of Star Wars?

See? Things aren't nearly as bad as you guys think they are.
Drives off toward the border at high speed in his new Range Rover

The Vietnam War was being broadcast every night on TV, essentially live, in a way that no previous war had been.

But they had master negotiator, New Jersey Generals owner Donald J. Trump — you know, the one who convinced the other owners to move the USFL schedule to the fall so that they would compete directly with the NFL in the belief that they could force a merger — on their side! Just think what the award would have been if…

If the Hound gets it, those of us who are anticipating season 7 only for the Clegane Bowl will be seriously disappointed.