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The Mueller Report is finished and it has been given to the Attorney General. We now begin what I suspect will be a nasty, extended fight over whether and/or when it should be released to the public.  I’m struggling to think of a single reason why it should not be released, in full, to the […]

Library of Congress Over at the baseball site I wrote about Angels outfielder Mike Trout and his new contract extension.  ​Short version: Trout is the best player in baseball and, perhaps, is the best player in baseball history. He is about to sign a contract extension that will pay him $430 million over the next […]

File this under “stuff I wish someone had said to me seven years ago.”: ​. . . it points to something much more frightening — ​that love itself exists outside the framework of justice. There is no court at which to plead your case, no authority who can grant you recompense. ​This is a terrible […]

On Friday Larry Baer, the CEO of the San Francisco Giants, was caught on tape having a loud, public argument with his wife. In the video he tried to rip a cell phone out of her hands, which caused her to tumble off of her chair and to the ground as she screamed “help me!” […]

Photo by Gage Skidmore, via Wikipedia Steven Spielberg has a problem with the movie “Roma.” Maybe not artistically — I’m guessing that he, like most people, liked it — but with who produced it and distributed it and how. And after learning about his objections to it, I’m choking on the irony of it all.  […]

I just read the statement from Micheal Cohen prefacing his testimony before Congress. Cohen is simultaneously believable about which he speaks yet is still delusional about his role and his own character. What he said is simultaneously revealing by virtue of the fact that someone is actually, finally, giving voice to those words in an official […]

Over three years ago I wrote an essay about how environmental calamities that have hit the places where I grew up — Flint, Michigan, Parkersburg, West Virginia and Southern West Virginia — were not mere accidents. They occurred because those with wealth and power consider the lives of poor people in poor places like that […]

“Green New Deal backers say they want more high-speed trains to make airline travel less necessary, and more electric cars and charging stations. But experts warn that changing the existing fleet of cars in the U.S. would be an extraordinary effort.” — NPR tweet, February 9, 2019 “Colonists say they want to throw off the […]

I’m an unpopular figure among a certain swath of media professionals. Newspaper folks, mostly, or people who started their careers working for newspapers. They don’t like me because I’ve spent a good chunk of the past decade arguing that it’s bad when old establishment media folks coast on their reputation, credentials and presumed authority and […]

A couple of years ago I wrote about my seven favorite movies in this space. Number one on that list was “The Conversation.” It’s still number one. I’m having a hard time imagining it will ever not be number one. It’s not a movie that, when you finish it, you say “ah, that was fun.” […]