On the one hand, I think you have the Bill Kristol Neocon types who probably see this as an opportunity to ressurect the ghost of Scoop Jackson and plant 20 armored divisions in Germany.

But what is Kavanaugh’s position on the Cannibal Witch? Does he hold a door for her when she has a sack full of small children? I hope at least he won’t hold the door for the Cannibal Witch if she has more than four children in her sack who she is taking off to her gingerbread and marzipan cottage. Although I wish he…

I’m trying to come up with some kind of witty response involving the phrase “a close shave” but I can’t.

Kelsey Grammer definitely had an achievable body type.

I try to think of a way that Unbreakable opens up the way in the early 2000s for a subgenre of character driven, limited special effects superhero movies, but I can’t. At the time it was mostly thought of as an M. Night Shyamalan movie, not a superhero movie, and people tended to think of it as a bit of a letdown…

His former staffer is a guy who has been exposed as a someone who repeatedly sexually harrassed and assaulted young Republican men, evidently on the grounds that he figured none of his victims would want to take the risk that he would damage their careers.

I thought Cavill as the undercover Superman in the opening scenes of Man of Steel was just fine. They could have proceeded from that point to where he puts on the cape with just occasional hints at his backstory, maybe explain he once hit a guy so hard by accident he really wrecked the guy and now he doesn’t like…

He’s going to do the cooking segments on Fox and Friends.

The NY Times’s corporate culture would crush someone who dared to spend two weeks of vacation in Michigan on the Great Lakes. From a NY Times editor’s point of view, any reporter who did that would be signalling they weren’t Times material and might as well work for the Sun Times or, god forbid, the Detroit Free Press.

It is a big place. A news editor can’t know everything.

This is exactly right. Soccer is easy to follow and commentary just needs to complement the visuals.