There never was anything stopping people from writing and publishing Gatsby fan fiction, or painting Donald Trump, Jr. as Tom Buchanan, or writing and presenting and profiting from a radio play featuring Ben Sasse as Nick Carroway, helplessly astonished by the depredations of the wealthy. Such work is clearly fair…

  Well, sorta. Trump has never understood that a wall isn’t going to change much around immigration, but he has trained his followers to believe that immigration is a major problem. So he’ll spend on the program, whatever it is, and tout (as he always does) things that happened (behold the wall!). Meanwhile ICE and…

Club going to lose its liquor license serving wine to underage kids. 

That’s the fencing response right there. Clearly concussed.

Sure but they do a fine job of evaluating the rigor of high school couses based entirely on their titles.

A Twins pitcher (I think it was) butted a base hit to shortstop the other day. I mean, with his butt. They almost got a double play out of it.

I know we want to think the ball handling made the defender fall down, but what actually happened was the contact (permissible, but still) did it. Did Paul maneuver Curry into that position, vulnerable to a bit of shoulder? sure. But it’s not ball, it’s body.

Look at the expression on the umpire’s face as he overrules Kinsler’s claim. You are out with prejudice. A rare look behind the mask. Where oh where are the journalists?

that’s where my prom tux jacket went. I wonder if I can still get my deposit back.

My two rtics perform as well as Yetis. Except for the dumb name. But now they’re Second Amendment suckups. While NRA folks are shooting their coolers (probably with precisely formulated hand-loaded cartridges designed for cooler-shooting) I’m going to have to make a counter-statement.

Suspension for the next game, sure. But a G.M. in the following game, too? Start with a five- minute power play? Hockey has too much extracurricular or penalty violence. They’re going to have their own concussion scandal soon enough; you’d think they’d want to get ahead of it.

Heeler.

Sank. He sank them. Sunk is past perfect, as in “He had sunk six of seven free throws before the foul but was only one for four after.”

Immature snow goose, that’s my take.

How do we get five hits out of an accident? Even in crowded situations the hit rate for handguns is about 20% at best. Handguns are incredibly difficult to use accurately. Rounds fired into compact groups of people often miss entirely, because even crowds are still mostly space. Cops—well trained shooters—routinely…

Stats are stats and are sacred texts, of course, but there’s a difference between a stripping, a stuffing, and a block. A lot of those are strips. Big guys are more susceptible to stripping, because the ball has to travel a long way before it enters the celestial untouchability that makes big guys better than small…

Octoerotic asphyxiation.

Offensive foul. Standards are slipping. When I was a lad...

Why is it a jump ball? Is that just what refs do when they have no idea? Maybe if blocked shots are so important they should be worth two points.

I’ve been an instructor and guide (guides are instructors too, of course) and I’ll add this: women are far faster learners. Fly rods do not reward muscle or speed. The energy flow is not intuitive, especially if you ever swung a bat, a lacrosse stick, or a hockey stick. The boys fight the rod, the women feel it.