So ESPN believes — through meticulous audience research, of course — that the average ESPN football fan is so bonehead dumb that Robert Lee would have to explain to them, on camera, in excruciating detail, probably with a poster of Robert E. Lee on the chair beside him, that they are not the same person? This has SNL…

Exactly. Like Carlos Beltran going down for two, three days with a “bone bruise” and ended up missing most of two seasons.

Nobody ever complains about Brando doing the same thing.

I know. It’s like buying a new car every six months because you’re too cheap to put oil in the crankcase.

The problem comes down from Alderson. He gives the impression of being so certain of his own infallibility that any and all mistakes must be the on the part of his players, because his battle plan — The Alderson Plan — is perfect. Perfect! Combine this with the Wilpons’s desire to always hire old friends — a football…

The Mets’ radio announcers, Howie Rose & Josh Lewin, didn’t buy the 457 estimate, either. They were in awe of that shot, felt it was far & away the longest home run ever hit in CitiField.

They’re ignoring the two police officers who died en route to the scene, too. If this was a “black riot,” those two officers — who genuinely died in the line of duty — would be hailed as martyrs all over policedom.

That was a riot? I’ve been at corporate barbeques that were more violent.

I don’t think it meant anything — like I’d know — but I thought it was interesting that when Andy came out of the vortex with the Eyeless Woman, he was behaving very...Cooper.

I just loved it when Truck You whined that her response wasn’t very polite and she just gave him a disdainful look and said, “I wasn’t trying to be polite.”

I have a feeling that part of this is that old bit where if you slip the agent a few folded-up twenty dollar bills when you hand them your driver’s license, the “problem” you were stopped for mysteriously goes away...

It might even be the best argument they can borrow. I doubt they work hard enough to make up such a feeble counter-strike themselves.

Some of our Twin Cities locals are outraged — outraged! — by these signs, and feel they must school all of us that these are Not Official Signs. When making this public loyalty pledge to the powers that be, they also seem to feel compelled to point out that only one person has been killed by Twin Cities police…

That occurred to me, too. Using a phrase like “super-duper” and using it seriously, not with irony or sarcasm - that’s like being in my second grade class again, and that was in 1964. This feels very much like the regression you often see in dementia.

Wise. You can never tell when local bears and raccoons will hit your home with an EM Pulse.

I clicked on this story, thinking “What kind of nonsense will this be?” and I was totally and completely wrong. A simple and ingenious solution to a problem that has plagued me for years. Thank you!

Somewhere, Oscar Gamble is weeping...

The paranoia of many US police officers is reaching that point that, unless a sheep — their word for the people they allegedly “serve & protect” — approaches an officer on hands and knees and genuflects before their Lord Protector, they are fair game to be killed.

Trump and his kids could choke to death while eating a live wombat and his supporters would tell us, A) it’s an incredibly clever thing to do, and B) Hillary Clinton! That being said, Junior doesn’t risk anything here because his presidential pardon papers are doubtless already dated and signed. It’s good to be above…

And reveal his ignorance to someone who has only a high school education? Mr Brooks could not live with that shame!