Must-see TV for would-be Jeopardy players. The “Belle of Amherst” comes up again and again.

The Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress in 2009-10, and didn’t make a serious effort to allow Medicare to negotiate prices with pharma companies—a step that would have been a good first step toward reining in drug price increases.

In theory, the penalty for not having insurance doesn’t apply if the lowest-priced plan on the marketplace costs more than 8.05 percent of your income.

That happened in 2009-10, and a number of Senate Democrats (I’m looking at you, Joe Lieberman and Blanche Lincoln) went out of their way to block the public option.

What really infuriates me is watching ad after ad after ad for prescription drugs on TV. Only a handful of countries even allow these so-called “direct to consumer” ads, which cost millions of dollars to air and help inflate the cost of the advertised drugs.

I saw a game even worse than that: a scoreless tie between Northern Illnois and Eastern Michigan. And the weather wasn’t to blame: it was crisp and dry that night.

After retiring from football, Lomas Brown lost a lot of weight. During football season, he’s a regular guest on the Sunday night sports wrap-up show.

I grew up in the NYC area and when I first took an interest in sports, the New York Giants were god-awful. When I went to college, the local NFL team was the Chicago Bears and they were god-awful. My next stop in higher education was in Michigan. By then, I’d realized the folly of rooting for god-awful pro teams and…

Ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for Trump Tower living.

I just finished American Huckster, which is about how Chuck Blazer got rich via bribery and other corruption in international soccer. Blazer lived and worked in Trump Tower (at one time, in a condo next to The Donald himself). The authors mention that not only did Trump inflate the floor numbers in the Trump Tower,…

I’m reading Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling. One of the anecdotes in that book involves a museum visitor who tripped on a loose shoelace and, on his way down, destroyed three Qing vases worth somewhere between £100,000 and £500,000. The museum eventually repaired the vases, but now they’re kept behind a…

Awful, but incredibly funny. Have a star.

The Brazilian police are pikers compared to what Mexican authorities did to suppress student protests before the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Saw this in NJ.com: A West Orange homeowner is suing Niantic Inc., the Pokemon Company, and Nintendo Company, alleging that they are liable in nuisance for the “intentional, unauthorized” placing Pokemon, Pokestops and Pokegyms, which prevents property owners from enjoying their land.

All the better if it’s done in calligraphy.

As a self-loathing Lions fan, I’m too deep in to leave, aren’t I?

Last time I saw a face like that, it was on a box of cough drops.

Louisiana has a “jungle primary”, in which the top two finishers face off in the general election. Even if David Duke finishes first in a crowded field, he’ll likely get defeated in November.

Since when did underage drinking carry the same level of culpability as sexual assault?

That would only delay the trial. He’d be sent to a mental hospital; and, once the shrinks pronounce him competent, he’ll go on trial.