Potential Yankee Elimination Day! I was aware that Walker Buehler had declined because of injuries, but until I saw it discussed in Joe Sheehan's newsletter, I had no idea how bad he had been this year -- 5.38 ERA, 5.54 FIP, -0.2 fWAR. He threw 4...
Tonight Kamala Harris will make the closing argument of her campaign. It will be on Washington's Ellipse, which is where Donald Trump egged on his January 6 insurrection. Thus Harris.
We are fortunate that great historians and intellectuals like Robert Paxton and now Christopher Browning are stepping forward at this moment to point out the many parallels between Trumpism in.
"Suppressed menstruation" and "female irregularities" were euphemisms for unwanted pregnancies. I am grateful to Scott for his continuing posting of atrocities against women experiencing failed pregnancies. Often, I’ve thought “I should post that,” and Scott had published it already. Something that has come home to me...
Teri Garr has died a few weeks short of what would have been her 80th birthday. I always enjoyed her performances, which were memorable because they were pitch perfect in.
Let's check in on the new Republican Economic Populism: If gov't debt is too high and wages are suppressed, the solutions are (1) to properly tax the top 0.1%, which.
In the second half of our interview with Chris Kempshall, we continued our discussion of the History and Politics of Star Wars. This included discussions of the depiction of warfare across the series, the depressing collapse of every democratic project in the series, and finally of...
A big very recent change in American national elections is the move to early voting. Michael McDonald's University of Florida Election Lab has a bunch of interesting stats, which I'm.
This is the grave of Estelle Griswold. Born in 1900 in Hartford, Estelle Trebert grew up a pretty normal kid. She was very smart but a terrible student, which led.
However it works out it's pretty clear that both campaigns think (albeit in one case only in retrospect) that having a D-list Joe Rogan protege on stage to do a lot of witless racism was not a good idea, and I think the initial evidence is...
Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, published a "note" today in his newspaper. "The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media." Ah yes Jeff. And why do you.
It occurs to me that we have not served this community with open threads for the first Dodgers-Yankees World Series in 43 years. This is an oversight! I have in.