Last night I got sucked into watching the HBO documentary “The Words That Built America.” Basically the Declaration of Independence and Constitution (and Bill of Rights) being read out loud - the Declaration by various celebrities and the Constitution by members of the particular branches being described. George H.W.…

This is the water, and this is the well

Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dude.

+1 Cannibal with a high-scoring Scrabble name.

I try to remember the last time I saw that movie (or the Fantastiks).

Obligatory (up there with Breaking Away in the pantheon of excellent cycling movies, well ahead of the uber-cheesy (but beloved) American Flyers).

I’m at work, so I don’t have time to go through this line by line, but I want to point out one misstatement - a scrum is NOT usually formed after a penalty. Rather, it’s usually a minor infringement, like a knock-on or forward pass. A team awarded a penalty may elect a scrum instead of a penalty kick, but that’s…

Margaret Lanterman is not amused.

I was dress shopping with my 13-year-old daughter over the weekend, and we came across a piece at Lord & Taylor that briefly caught her eye. The look of dread in her eyes when she saw the Ivanka Trump label and tossed it back on the rack was definitely a proud papa moment.

Works like a depth charge . . booom.

You should see what the German drunk tests.

Live and Let Die is one of my favorite Bond flicks, probably because it was always on TV when I was a kid in the late 70s/early 80s. Baron Samedi was the best (RIP Geoffrey Holder).

+1 of these.

How has nobody mentioned Cannonball Run?

Inconceivable.

I was in Nashville on business in 2003 or so and was thrown a seat for a game. I was sitting next to a kid - maybe 13 or so - who kept yelling “Hit ‘im with a stick! Hit ‘im with a stick!” in an appropriately heavy Tennessee drawl whenever things got chippy on the ice. I’m glad things have progressed from the NASCAR…

+1 Norwegian Blue, just pinin’ for the fjords.

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Squirrel?