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Dad, journalist, jazz-side blues guitarist. Writer, Throneberry Fields Forever (throneberryfields.com). Co-editor, Here's the Pitch IBWAA newsletter (ibwaa.substack.com). Rescue dog dad. MAGAts/porners/crypto/spammers/scammers blocked while U wait.
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submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody knows what Don Larsen did in Game Five of the 1956 World Series. But here's the best spot reporting you'll ever find from the opposing pitcher's side, Sal Maglie, by the great columnist Murray Kempton: www.thestacksreader.com/gracious-man...

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Did anyone bother to remind Jack Smith and Merrick Garland that Trump ISN'T a sitting president again just yet?!?

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Alice Brock---restauranteur/librarian immortalised by (and in) . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKI...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Why do I think calling them "narcissistic, corrupt, and dangerous to America" means only that you've read their biographies . . . www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cabi...

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

The second Trump Administration seems to be threatening to teach us, if we haven't figured it out already, how right Mr. Mencken was in observing, "Democracy [is the] fine art of running the circus from the monkey cage."

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

About those "healthy" diets and health habits RFK, Jr. and company wish to shove down our gullets . . . (or, we deserve a break today) . . .

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

"TrumpWorld is doing everything imaginable to remind us . . . that we are not the ones with brain worms or covering up underage sex parties; rationalizing sexual assaults; or wallowing in conspiracy theories, kakistocracy, and sedition . . . " charliesykes.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Fill 'er up for your happy Sunday!

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Based on the election and on the Marmalade Meathead's early cabinet picks, I suspect we're about to see how right H.L. Mencken was: "Democracy---That system whereby the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard."

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

For a musician, or for the couples for whom he plays this, there are very few songs as good for extended dance floor canoodling as this (I've played it a couple of years and never tire of finding new ways to improvise on it) . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0m...

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

So who's going to be Secretary of Transportation? Mr. Magoo?

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

If it's true, choosing Matt Gaetz to be our next attorney general is like picking Frank Burns to run Walter Reed Army Hospital.

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments