Good piece, but the Cubs played the Royals last night, not the Pirates.

Forget Babar. If your kids insist on elephant-themed books (mine did), read them Arnold Lobel’s “Uncle Elephant” or Hilda Offen’s “Elephant Pie.”

So true. With few exceptions, U.S. news sites are a shit show.

Once newspapers lost classified advertising to the internet, it was game over. Classified ads were a license to print money. They subsidized the journalism and covered up for all sorts of business blunders. The only alternative back then to newspaper classifieds was to stick a note on a grocery story bulletin board.…