I feel like we need a ruling from George Costanza on that. (Ah, I see Cali got there first.)

Bravo. That was well-said, and necessary. And congratulations on the column.

I think Monday Night Football would be sort of like COPS, in that it started on ABC (during the Nixon administration, I believe) and is now on ESPN.

I was in the MLK Memorial bookstore for the beginning of this, and then blessedly shielded from most of the noise at the Memorial itself. While in the bookstore, I did hear somebody sing a song that included the words "God Bless Texas," (which is a song, right?). And then I heard "Walking In Memphis" (as I wondered,…

I can confirm this. I was on the Mall, just past the World War II Memorial, on my way to the MLK Memorial, when this happened. (I think the entrance to this concert was in front of the WWII memorial; they were asking people who entered there to open their jackets and bags.) I heard "You Can't Always Get What You…

I don't mean to be annoying, but I think you mean you were raised as a Hindu (an adherent of Hinduism, the religion), not raised Hindi (a language).

He had a very good season last year from start to finish, and he closed it (in all of those events after the U.S. Open) on a tear. Djokovic fell off a bit after he won the French Open, getting bounced early in a few tournaments, and Murray caught him in the rankings at the end of the season. Djokovic did beat Murray…

Yes, very big. People were straining to come up with historical comparisons. ("The biggest upset since . . . .") But there are still plenty of big names (which isn't that surprising, since they've just finished the second round). Andy Murray (who's currently ranked No. 1 in the world), Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal…

Yeah, that sucks. Were they better this year (with Watson, anyway) than they were with Dougie McBuckets?

I agree that most TV personalities are not bright enough to do a real interview, but I'd expect more from Charlie Rose. He's not Matt Lauer. (In fairness, I haven't seen the interview in question.)

Istomin closes it out, 6-4 in the fifth. Stunning. The guy just played at a high level for about five hours against Djokovic, who's almost impossible to break down and has won the Australian five of the last six years, I think.

The Republicans will get on that at roughly the same time they embrace teaching evolution and climate change. A well-educated populace is not in their self-interest.

Thanks in part to a couple of magnificent backhands, Istomin breaks to take a 3-2 lead, and digs out of a 15-30 hole on his serve to go up 4-2. The crowd seems to be pulling for him, which has to be bothering Djokovic. This is getting serious.

For any tennis fans out there, Dennis Istomin has just taken the fourth set against Novak Djokovic in a second-round match at the Aussie Open. The match is already over four hours long, and now they're starting the fifth. I suspect Djoker will win this set by something like 6-2, but Istomin has already hung around a…

But if she'd just stuck around to the end of the movies, she would have seen that Michelle Pfeiffer or Edward James Olmos or Denzel Washington — or Goldie Hawn in "Wildcats," the most inspiring example — turned things around.

This is at a lower level — Division III, I think — but does Kenyon College still have that crazy run of national titles? I think they had really long streaks in both men's and women's swimming.

That's a pretty consistent theme with these guys. It's apparent from her hearing on Tuesday that Betsy DeVos doesn't know anything about education policy, or what the Department of Education does. But she's somehow certain that the federal government should have less to do with education, and that government in…

Can it be Gus, the football-kicking mule?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I thought it was Korean people who ran all the nail salons. Like those mean ladies who made fun of Elaine in Korean while she was in the room, and Kim, who loved Frank even though he defied her father and refused to take his shoes off.

How the hell is this the finale? They just came back from their long winter break, or whatever it's now called when a show takes several weeks off after its "fall finale". So there won't be any new episodes until the fall?