Might have to give The Mule a new look and maybe a slightly different backstory. Between the Joker and It and Harley Quinn, we’ve got a lot of clowns and jesters on our hands right now.

Seems like a Macedonian phalanx, with 18-foot long pikes to keep an enemy at bay, would be more practical than Roman legionary tactics. Or perhaps a front line consisting of phalangites, with Roman legionaries on the flanks, since the phalanx was NOT a flexible formation.

Speaking as a Mets fan, the ONLY way this makes sense is if the Mets are about to trade Jacob DeGrom and need a stable pitcher to take his place in the rotation. That said...I don’t think our GM has the guts -- or the permission from the Wilpons -- to make that trade.

Ah, let them use John Williams’s score, just this once. :)

Mets fan since ‘71, listened to the game today, and when Frazier hit his two-run home run in the 9th, I felt absolutely nothing. Not because it wasn’t a splendid moment, but because I knew — the way Spock knows that when he drops a hammer on a positive-gravity planet, he doesn’t have to see it fall to know that it has…

Sounds like “I’m Dangerous Tonight,” a movie where Madchen Amick runs into a gorgeous -- and cursed -- red evening gown that turns anyone wearing it into a serial killer. Based upon a very good Cornell Woolrich story of the same title.

Looking forward to seeing the Big Red Cheese in action!

$1 per bag for the bellhop was standard when I was working in US hotels back in the early 80s. Seems like a minimum like that should be off the table by now. Not saying it isn’t. Just saying it should be.

Reminiscent of Palpatine’s Red Guard...

Trying to describe a pinball game on the printed page is a fascinating writing challenge. No way in hell could I pull that off. 

So we’re now on a path that leads, a century from now, to a  movie world where nobody will make a Batman movie because it’s too derivative of all the films that copied the Caped Crusader.

You have to like — be appalled by? — the get it done attitude of Warner Brothers studio executives who decided the forest wasn’t green enough to justify the expensive rental of Hollywood’s only three Technicolor® cameras and ordered the filmmakers to spray paint the leaves green.

If Trump is personally serving food to me without my personally viewing him personally washing his personal hands for at least a quarter hour first, I wouldn’t even touch the plate.

And what this “means” is that, on Trump’s pre-presidential trips to Saudi Arabia, Saudi intelligence got fully as much blackmail material on him as did the Russians. Between money and sexual blackmail, both those states have Trump on a short, tight leash.

One of the many subtleties Trump is missing here is, when you put the murder of your enemies on the political table, you’re putting yourself on that table, too.

Be interesting in a space opera — not so much in reality — to discover that some (incredibly advanced) species has weaponized a thing like this, aiming it to point exactly at a star system whose inhabitants they don’t much care for.

And a footnote I find fascinating: the first military draft in American history was by the Confederate States of America. (Yes, those small government fellows.)

Clue is always the best. Unless...

I’m looking forward to this movie, but I also wonder how long it’s going to be before a comic book film director decides to go minimalist and not fill every square centimeter of the movie screen with stuff in motion. (Okay, I’m old, but I can’t be the only one who feels that too much happening on the screen is too…

Clark Griswold, Ghostbuster.