This probably isn't for many people at this point--it wasn't that popular when it was an ongoing thing--but for some of us it's glorious.

Thinking of various science-fiction stories when someone hits the secret "off" button on the android.

Pursuant to this post, I just learned that in 1973, ABC's Saturday morning cartoon programming went from Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear, and the Super Friends to "Lassie's Rescue Rangers," in which the titular canine fights... drug traffickers trying to move product through our national parks???

Having had more than a few fainting episodes myself, I would never make fun of someone passing out in public. What I would eagerly point out, however, is how our Fuhrer shows no emotion beyond detached curiosity, then totally checks out, incapable of even feigning concern.

Where is the betting market for this stuff? "Will be" is pretty definitive and I feel like there's easy money to be made here. As Sky Masterson once told me, always bet against the bigot.

Our infamous bombing of Dresden might have killed 25,000.

I'm too lazy to look for a GIF, but this looks like the set for the trial of the Phantom Zone villains at the beginning of the 1978 Superman movie.

Imagine if they had taken the same amount of money and endowed a magnificent park anywhere in the city.

What should be of deep concern to the American Jewish community is the safety of the American Jewish community. Allying with leaders in coalition w/literal Nazis because those leaders make pleasing noises re Israel risks leaving us w/a pariah-state Israel and an antisemitic US. Congratufuckulations.

Republicans are unprepared for Democrats who fight back, much less play the offense, but this is what it looks like.

Exactly. Every Democrat should be learning from Mamdani tonight.

Mamdani just going right after Trump. I love it. He gets it. None of this mealy-mouthed Schumer stuff, just giving as good as he gets.

For longer than I've been alive, NJ voters have always turned out the party in power after two terms. The Republicans wreck the economy and the Dems raise taxes to catch up, are tarred and feathered, and around we go again. Sherrill winning like this really shows discontent w/the Trumpite agenda.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

I was looking back at an early episode of my show. Borrowing from George Harrison, I had introduced @davidjroth.bsky.social as a "friend of us all." However, the transcription app heard it as "a friend of Saul." And of course he is that too. Of others as well, but especially Saul.

This needs to be shared more widely. It's on Facebook, which AFAIK doesn't allow direct links to its posts. Terry clearly wants it to be shared, so I don't feel bad about posting it in multiple screenshots. Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

So glad @matrueblood.bsky.social wrote this piece today. Baseball is everything and everything is baseball. I say that all the time, but now what it means is that everything is COMING for baseball. As Matt observes, that's more weight than baseball--and we--should be made to bear.

One more on prompt for this week's episode given the administration's confusion--the figurehead, in his dotage, says no food assistance, but his mouthpiece says there will be. Who's in charge? That's not the question I attempt to answer, but rather how/why assistance began.

Came across the "Funnyman" strip while researching some 1949 baseball. Two comments: 1. This was by Superman's creators, Siegel and Shuster, trying to prop themselves up while suing DC over revenues. Alas, it didn't work. 2. "He's your father, Tommy!" A likely story and a classic album by the Who.

Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way. by Ezra Klein

Subterranean Homesick Mayor. Wish I could vote for him.

I’m coining the phrase “the centrist two-step.” Step 1 is declaring that the left needs to focus on kitchen table issues instead of social issues to win back voters and step 2 is insisting that all left-wing approaches to kitchen table issues are impossible to deliver on.

Tonight at 8pm ET, TCM is showing John Frankenheimer's "Seven Days in May." Thriller w/script by Rod Serling(!) A general sets up a couple because the president is (ahahaha) too liberal. Still really good. With Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and good for these times?

Housing shortage: SOLVED!

look, if you want owners to make more money at the expense of the guys who actually make the sports you love happen, that's your business. but take a pause to wonder why all the default solutions you have to creating "competitive balance" also manage to shift money from players to owners

And when he wasn't doing that he went to the track and wagered everything he had on the ponies, and then bet some more he didn't have, and THEN he waited for spring because he desperately needed to get paid again.

I would think that every one of us, at some point when we were growing up, encountered that kid who was wired perversely, who you understood, even though you were a child, was a budding sadist who got off on brutality. Could have been another child or an animal. This man was that kid.

This policing makes me wonder why, if these foods are w/o value, they are sold at all. The psychology of buying the "wrong" or "irresponsible" thing w/scarce money was addressed by the great Meridel Le Sueur in 1932. I quoted this passage in this week's Infinite Inning. So, yes, have some empathy.

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

I haven't signed off yet because now that the Series is over I figure the first rumors of the hot stove league season will be coming in at any moment.

Merit

So the World Series MVP is an… immigrant

nearly every owner would be happy as a pig in shit to reinstate the reserve clause and wouldn’t give a rat’s ass if it made baseball less competitive

Almost surprised to recall that this is the first repeat winner in Dodgers history.

Whatever you think of the Dodgers that was a gutsy performance by Yamamoto.

Both he and Kiké are getting dangerously low on hit points.

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

Custer's last words.

Why is Smoltz talking about the slide on a force play?

Welp, the princess got out of that one, R2.

Ending the WS on a replay would have been so very Age of Manfred.

"There will be no escape for the princess this time!"

Rooting for the triple!

"Double-Duty Yamamoto?"

I can't believe a Rockie is going to close out the World Series.

Three outs until winter? (Noooooo!)

As I said on the Infinite Inning today, bullpen problems are like malaria. You think you're in remission, but nope, it recurs at the worst possible time.

Every three seconds. If they could remind you in the middle of an at-bat they would. You MUST be reminded! THERE MIGHT BE A QUIZ!