Sammy Sofferin’s Wonder Bar and Indian Room
A few words on looking for things: When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of […]
Read moreHaving policies is a “brand” now?
Elizabethwarren.com According to NPR — and a lot of other places, I should add — “having policy proposals” is just one of many “brands” for a presidential candidate as opposed to an essential and basic requirement: It’s kind of nuts to think that having ideas aimed at addressing the pressing issues of the day is […]
Read moreSay No to Nancy Pelosi’s Sad, Cynical and Fearful Strategy
Source: Pelosi.house.gov A profile of Nancy Pelosi in the New York Times appeared over the weekend which outlines her “coldblooded plan” for leading the Democratic Party, defeating Trump and forging a new path forward. The plan is cynical and cowardly. I likewise suspect it will ultimately lead to failure, either at the polls in 2020 […]
Read moreStephen Smith for Governor: West Virginia Can’t Wait
I haven’t lived in West Virginia for a long time, but if you ask me today I still say that’s where I’m from. It’s the place that, more than anywhere else, made me who I am and helped me figure out what I cared about. West Virginia has long been the poster child for states […]
Read moreThey’re going to film most of “Hillbilly Elegy” in Georgia
I just read that they’re going to shoot most of the “Hillbilly Elegy” movie in Georgia, not Ohio because Georgia has tax credits for production. I know that’s not J.D. Vance’s decision or anything, but I find it amusing that the movie about a guy who got famous for a book in which he argued […]
Read moreHappy 10th Birthday, HardballTalk!
The website I write for a living — HardballTalk at NBC Sports — is ten years old today. The longest I ever held any other job was five and a half years. I only practiced law, in total, for eleven years. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
Read moreCondemned to Repeat It
Library of Congress An article appeared in the Washington Post yesterday about a lynching in Wytheville, Virginia in 1926. A man named Raymond Byrd was arrested after being accused of raping a white woman. He was killed in his jail cell by a mob, his body was dragged through town behind a car and he […]
Read moreRelease the Mueller Report. Now.
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 […]
Read more$430 million for Mike Trout is a bargain
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 […]
Read more“. . . so we grasp at the fiction of closure”
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 […]
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