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Fraulein Forehand! One of the great nicknames, courtesy of Bud Collins. (And doesn't everyone know she was a far superior player to Andre?)

I'm no expert in this area, and I know there's been debate about whether firing Comey qualified, but threatening to fire someone unless he exonerates you also smells kind of like obstruction of justice. Call this Obstruction 2: Too Obstructed, Too Furious ("It's Mueller time.")

I didn't follow the race very closely, but I was aware it was going on (because I live in D.C.). I got the sense that both of the Democratic candidates were generally good dudes, and both of the Republican candidates were racists, apologists for the Confederacy, and Trumpers. Northam won my support — and cracked me up

Trump thinks he avoided Sisyphus, along with other STDs. It was his own personal Vietnam.

That's the second mention of Jonathan Swift I've seen here in recent days. I like it. I modestly propose more.

Five hours over three episodes sounds like kind of a slog, but I'll probably check this out. I was a Midwestern kid with no connection to Los Angeles, but I loved, loved, loved the Lakers in the '80s and somehow even developed a fondness for L.A. from afar because of them. (I hated the Celtics, of course). Magic

You'll always have Fo Fi Fo. (That team could stand on its own with any single Lakers or Celtics team from that era.)

I'm not sure about this particular case and the states' case for standing. The case that's already been filed in New York by CREW is further along, and DOJ filed its motion to dismiss the complaint last week. My sense all along has been that CREW's standing argument is pretty weak, but they added some plaintiffs that

Taylor Swift should record "The Lady's Dressing Room". If she has some feud with Katy Perry, she could easily repurpose it as a diss track: "Oh! Katy, Katy, Katy shits!"

I figured that dude Kasowitz would be out of his depth, because he's a Wall Street lawyer without any experience in these sorts of matters. But it turns out he's also just a bad, sloppy writer, which doesn't speak highly of his skills as a lawyer, no matter what the focus of his practice is. (He is a trial lawyer, so

I'm predicting he'll tweet before lunch tomorrow. Unhinged id, bile and rage, coming up!

Leonardo Adrian Garcia is the winner. That's a perfect album, from start to finish. (I had no idea that was a gospel crowd. I imagined it was a bunch of people having fun in a Miami nightclub. They sure don't sound like a gospel crowd. But perhaps I'm making unwarranted assumptions about gospel crowds.)

Paul Ryan's he's-just-new-to-this defense is bullshit. (What do you expect? It's Paul Ryan.) Preet Bharara pointed out that Trump had no problem realizing that Bill Clinton's meeting on the tarmac with Loretta Lynch looked like a breach of protocol, and hammered away at it during the campaign.

"This guy . . . this is not my kind of guy." (But Jerry Stiller is.)

Larry is 69; Jerry is 63. Larry's been pulling off "angry lovable old coot" for a lot longer than six years. I think they're both technically old enough now to pull it off, but Jerry doesn't look that way. This is one instance in which Larry's white hair and baldness have helped him out, by making him seem older and

I've seen him hug people before, but he said at the end of the clip that he didn't know who she was. (Which doesn't sound like a lie. I mean, I wouldn't know who she was if she came up to me.) I can't blame him for not wanting a stranger to hug him.

I'll admit that I hated Penn State long before the Sandusky scandal, simply because I'm a fan of one of Penn State's rivals. But it's bizarre and disturbing to see the sort of cult worship that some — not all — Penn State people engage in regarding Paterno and Nittany Lions football. The denials and whitewashing

That pissed me off. Screw that racist asshole. Monday Night Football usually sucks now, anyway. That will make it easier for me not to watch.

"Oh, but Moe, the dank! The dank!"

Did anyone point out to Ice-T that Dan Quayle was not the President? (We were all grateful for that. How innocent we were back then, to worry that a Vice-President was too dumb, and might give kids the idea that basic intelligence — like, say, spelling — wasn't necessary.)