Paperback Writer is a great song, but the Beatles' sloppiness really shows in their performances of it recorded in the surviving footage of the 66 tour. Lennon and Harrison's backing vocals are out of time and off-key.

By choice. They could easily leave the road and spend their days building mansions out of $100 bill stacks.

The screaming problem went all the way back to the first U.S. tour in 1964 (and probably before). It's a special hell to be a gifted musician in a tight band that plays concerts where no one can hear you.

"OK. Next on the list: Ant, Adam."

THE BEEB IS ON FIRE with reason and news
The Tories complain about the factual views

What happens in Las Vegas, Mississippi gets tearfully confessed at the Church of Christ Sunday morning.

My god. Did someone tell Bibbowski?

Sorry, dumb question here: Didn't Eradicator save Clark at the end of the Reign of the Supermen arc and restore his superpowers? I mean, he was a jerk but Hank Henshaw seemed worse.

We should discuss Clinton's hawkish attitudes, but the Republicans keep nominating people getting the feed ready for the Pale Rider. If the GOP could at least run a few dozen yards back to the center, there could be so much more nuance.

It used to be The Sun, but they stopped that. The use of the newspaper as a blunt object against the afflicted? That hasn't stopped.

The Mail is terrible and I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw an exoplanet. But The Sun is just awful in any way you can measure.

Was Tommy Smothers a director? I don't see anything online on that.

Underworld: Rise of Aunt Esther

RIP Charles Rocket. He's the poster boy for what went wrong in the 1980-81 season, but he did some good pieces, including the Man On The Street interviews. With better writing (and uh, less cursing) he might have thrived.

He left after 1994, if I recall. Good timing.

My local PBS station lost the rights to broadcast Monty Python in 1987, and finished with a marathon that we only partially taped. Didn't see an episode again until we got Comedy Central. Reruns of SCTV, IIRC, only aired on Nick at Nite and not on PBS.

Farley hosted GOP fundraisers and his family supported Republican politics to a greater or lesser extent (though one of his brothers has since left the GOP). Wasn't really sure about Sandler's politics.

I remember agreeing with the article that McDonald taking over Weekend Update gave people something to watch in that trainwreck of a year.

Well, that's why I think Lincoln stands out over most of our chief executives. He had a healthy ego to be sure (and, again, a self-superiority) but also sharp political skills combined with a rational mind that, providentially, was exactly what was needed amid the Civil War. Suffering broadened Lincoln's outlook and…

David Herbert Donald wrote that Lincoln allowed the convention to decide; if he had wanted to keep Hamlin, the party would have let him. Considering the uncertain prospects for Lincoln's re-election at the time, nominating Johnson was probably the best option available, but God knows the country paid a price.