This current philosophy of hate among Republicans is akin to the love child that came out of a three-way between Ayn Rand, Calvinism, and Social Darwinism. And this belief in ‘chosen ones,’ picked out by God to be healthy and rich (and probably tall and definitely white) explains much of the hatred toward people like…

First the Red Sox, then the Cubs, became the Yankees. Now, the Yankee seem to be in the process of becoming the old Cubs, with an annual June swoon, and we can expect them to win their next Series sometime in the early 22nd century.

No, Kershaw can’t be mortal because ESPN is busy marketing him as this year’s Greatest Pitcher Of All Time™. It really bothers somebody at ESPN that Koufax is still held in the highest esteem, and they keep trying to knock him off his perch as the best pitcher of modern times. But he’s still up there.

I think some of those on the far, far right have warped this kind of thing into their Christianity-for-profit model: if “something” happens to you, it means that Jee-Sus has declared you to be a Bad Person™, no longer under official protection. If nothing happened to you, it means you have been officially declared a…

Which original? 1932, 1940, 1956, or 1999?

Hollywood rarely makes a good mummy movie. England has managed a few, with Christoper Lee and Peter Cushing, and once with Valerie Leon, but aside from Brendan Fraser’s, most American mummy movies are not good.

Tan polyester suit, straight out of 1981. A classic. Probably came with a necktie nine inches wide.

Given his years as a POW, his “actual” age is probably closer to 90.

“...the drivers going straight who stop to let the left turning cars through...”

The thing about trees is, you find yourself eyeballing trees across the street, down the block, trying to estimate their height and their distance from your house. Would it hit? Would it fall just short? Would the trunk impact the roof, or “just” branches? Should I buy heavier curtains to stop flying glass? Should I…

No, he decided to pull out of the Paris Accord based upon how much money he’d received from the oil, gas & coal companies of the world. Trump does nothing upon principle, even upon his own.

“..[Mr Met] pulled his hand away, turned around, and did what he did.”

Fire the best Mr Met ever? He’ll be picked up by the Cubs by week’s end, and this just adds to the record of shame for the team that traded away Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Rusty Staub, Amos Otis and so very many others, always for a handful of overage, overweight magic beans...

After Christian is tried, convicted, and sentenced, I think everyone about him — guards, fellow inmates, the warden — ought to order him to “Get out!” of prison, seventy or eighty times a day, every day, for the rest of his life. Anyone who hates so easily and kills so casually deserves not a speck of respect or peace…

It also helps if you read the golf stories of P.G. Wodehouse. Once read, you still may be rotten at golf, but you will at least understand golfers. And you’ll laugh a lot.

I always liked Molly Peters’s performance in Thunderball. Beautiful and sexy, yes, but she also gave her character the impression of being one of the few “Bond Girls” who had a life away from 007. Not like she exists when Bond enters and vanishes when he exits, I mean. A fine performance.

For one thing, people would be making political statements by performing hangings in effigy on this thing. And it hasn’t been American Indian people, or Jewish people, or black people who have been hinting around at bringing back public lynching. I don’t think a major art museum should be enabling that kind of…

I am totally picturing Mr Frei’s tweet being read in the voice of the actor who played a German officer in Raiders of the Lost Ark, musing that he is “uncomfortable” with this “Jewish ritual.” And for the record, his father was a recon pilot. Dangerous work, yes, but it doesn’t really compare to the Marines and Army…

Nero Wolfe will be incensed. He might even feel rancor.

Hamilton scored from first on a single to left. From first. Left! OK, it was bobbled, but...he scored without a play. The Mets radio announcers (Howie Rose & Josh Lewin — wonderful team!) like to say that one of the joys of baseball is that during any game, you can see something you’ve never seen before. This was one…