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The hearse in the driveway did it for me. Read more

Did he ever offer a phonetic pronunciation for it? Was it SEE-lay or KUH-lay? Read more

He’s calling Juice and Tig and telling them to pick his kids up from daycare while he takes care of business with the Irish Kings

Edit: Typo. Tig, not Trig. Palin’s kid has nothing to do with the Sons. That I know of. Read more

This almost happened in a bout in 1979, let me see if I can find it on YouTube. Great fight. Read more

I largely agree. To me the case boils to: The A.L. is the hitting league, the N.L. is the pitching league. I’d love to know if this perception is actually supported by data (and the N.L. would have to control for pitchers striking out pitchers) but for almost 100 years that’s how the public has viewed the two. So the Read more

I don’t understand the logic here. We can disagree with the NYT — and I certainly do — about the wisdom of eliminating so much of the copy desk and reassigning the surviving members for whatever so-called strategic purpose they have theorized. But if they are intent upon reorganizing that department it doesn’t really Read more

And we wonder why we can’t win an election. Read more

I didn’t know there was any other kind, really. Read more

My brother and I saved up our paper route money for the beach trip to South Carolina to buy all the god damn fireworks we could (because those fucking rednecks had absolutely no sense of self-preservation). The best was “Plane Drops Parachute by Night,” manufactured in Fushan Quangtun, China. It spiraled up, exploded Read more

I am now using abstract faculty of mind in conversation, so cheers to both of you. Read more

There is no game like the game for all America. Read more

Too bad one of Diana’s copy editors (Miami and Charlotte used to be K-R) couldn’t save this failed-up preps writer from yard abandonment. Read more

I bet they’re thrilled actually. This will suck up some of the oxygen on the Sunday show that would be used to ask about their abhorrent and indefensible health care plan and they’ll get to make some real no-lose comments about Trump’s behavior. Read more