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...

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

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

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...

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."

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

"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...

Fill 'er up for your happy Sunday!

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."

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...

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

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

Xtwitter banned me last week. (Heinous crime: answering Marco Rubio's bonehead post suggesting Harris's arrest for doing "SNL" with maybe they should have executed then-mere candidate Nixon for doing "Laugh-In" back 1968.) I should actually feel honoured.