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Then again, it’s only fifty years ago

Alternate title: Why Vin Scully don’t need no color man. Transcript of Vin calling the Yankee-Dodgers game on July 31, 2013, fourth inning. (more…)

The best, most horrible game

Towards the end of game three of the National League Championship Series, a game in which the Dodgers slapped the Cubs around at Wrigley, the TBS camera kept finding this one kid up in the stands. He was maybe eight or ten and decked out in a Cubs hat and jersey and was wearing his glove and was absolutely miserable that his beloved reigning world champions were about to fall behind a near-fatal…

Discovering Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Discovery aired this past weekend. I have some thoughts… S01E01 — Most Trek premier episodes aren’t great. “Encounter at  Farpoint” for ST:TNG was pretty awful. They were all better than that, but some not by much. “The Vulcan Hero”/”Battle at the Binary Stars” was, I thought, about average for these things. They have a lot of water to carry. New captain, new crew, new ship,…

Louise Mensch is not a credible person. Really.

There are three types of people: Those who know who Louise Mensch is and follow her prognostications and predictions Those who know who Louise Mensch is and think she’s nuts Those who have no idea who Louise Mensch is Those in the third group are the lucky ones. (more…)

“A new CNN/ORC poll bolsters this finding, showing Trump with 44 percent favorability (along with 53 percent unfavorability). (A Pew poll from last month had him at an even lower 37 percent.)”

Harry Enten over on FiveThirtyEight posted a piece yesterday about how registered Democratic-leaning voters did not vote and therefore cost Clinton the election. And I was like, oh right, I’m pissed at those guys, too. And I am. But who I’m really pissed at is conservative and Republican-leaning voters who should have known better. I know several of these people. Erstwhile principled…

A bug, not a feature

Bill O’Reilly’s been getting a lot of shit for saying this while attempting to deconstruct calls to abolish the Electoral College: White men have largely abandoned the Democrats, and the left believes it’s because of racism that they want to punish minorities, keep them down. So that’s what’s really going on when you hear about the electoral college and how unfair it allegedly is. Summing up, the…

Rogue One, number one

Just got back from seeing Rogue One and have determined this to be the logical order of Star Wars films ranked by quality from worst to best… 8. The Phantom Menace 7. Attack of the Clones 6. Revenge of the Sith 5. Return of the Jedi 4. The Force Awakens 3. A New Hope (AKA, Star Wars) 2. The Empire Strikes Back 1. Rogue One. Yeah, I know. But lets back up. The Phantom Menace is barely watchable.…

The end of the first season of Westworld has left me with many questions… (more…)

The way I see it, last night’s debate gave us a pretty clear choice. On one side of the stage, a person who was prepared and briefed, who understood the issues and had a point of view of how to proceed. On the other, we saw a bombastic, misogynistic, xenophobic racist who seems to revel in his lack of knowledge and preparedness. You know, the same two we’ve seen over the course of this entire…

I’m starting to buy the logic of ditching the 3.5 mm traditional headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and using the single lightning port for headphones instead. I’m not saying I’d have voted to do it, but there’s at least a defensible argument to be made. Before I get into that, though, let’s just stop and marvel at the totally tone-deaf claim by Phil Schiller that dropping the port was an act of…

The other email scandal

In the field of email marketing, just as in the field of human interpersonal relationships, permission is a big deal. Without it you get spam and rape, respectively. As someone who makes a living being a responsible marketer, the way in which political parties and candidates disregard the same laws they write for us to follow is appalling. I support Hillary Clinton in this presidential election…

The above is from Donald Trump’s Facebook page. We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today. As do we all. Killing is killing and leads to more killing and distrust and fear. How many law enforcement and people have to die because of lack of leadership in our country? (Emphasis added) Who are the “and people” part? African Americans killed by police? General bystanders? Those killed…