a guy who, for some reason, tried to debate an enormously popular member of Congress

I’m nowhere near the Carolinas, but it strikes me odd that we haven’t heard from Ginny Fox on this yet. This would be the exact subject on which she’d open her racist yap.

She just wanted to see Cary Grant and Eve Marie Saint enjoying themselves outdoors.

After further review, the pun is Grant-ed.

Tangent: If a throw-in from an outfield player goes (untouched, unkicked, unheaded...) into the goal, is it a goal?

Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos lately, and I’m surprised more people haven’t been talking about them.

“Right now”?

This show is on CNBC. People who watch that channel are either in on it or want to pass themselves off as in on it.

Cut a lot of corners, eh?

You wrote how many hundred words without making a Palisades Park gag?

getting them out of park when the battery is dead

A favorite refrain from President Ronald Reagan’s team was “even the liberal New Republic agrees …”

Fourth gear:

“Fighting the machine” dept: I’m re-flabbergasted at the minimal contact patch they had on F1 cars then.

having someone sneak a phone in and tape it to the underside of a toilet’s tank

What, Phyllis Schlafly wasn’t available?

Charles R. Morris’ “A Rabble of Dead Money, The Great Crash and the Global Depression 1929-1939” from 2017.

She would have attended but she’s a little chained up right now.

I’m reading a nerdy book on the Great Depression.

I remember the Cold War. I am old enough to remember Nixon play up the first-gen echoes of the real Red Scare.