Cold Turkey

The Yankees head off to the West Coast and since West Coasters don't like to sit around in baseball stadia on beautiful afternoons, all the games except Sunday will be played at night. Following the trip comes the All Star Break. For me, that means only one thing.

When Tigers attack!

Tiger speaks. Market comes to a halt.

Anger management

For jeebus' sake, where do they get Illinois politicians? They're almost worse than New York State politicians.

Oh, and I guess this would be rather an understatement:

From a political perspective, also not helpful for Cohen is that his girlfriend at the time was a prostitute, though he says he thought she just worked at a massage parlor.

Schadenfreude for all the wrong reasons

To be clear, I enjoy watching a sanctimonious conservative hoisted by his petard as much as the next lefty blogger, but Sanford should be demonized for his behavior in rejecting federal stimulus money to help the people of his state in financial distress during an economic catastrophe. He should not be demonized for something that's between his wife, his girlfriend, his children. Yes, he lost his mind there for a long weekend, but the first hints of his truly horrendous judgment were on view some months ago.

And the person who leaked Sanford's emails is truly sleazy.

UPDATE: As usual, Roy is on the case.

Big Beaver!

Sorry, couldn't help it.

Suzanne Pleshette

I can't tell you how much I coveted Bob Newhart's "wife" when I was eight.

Funny thing is, I didn't know until I read her obituary this morning that "Suzanne Pleshette" -- a name that oozed sexuality for me -- was her real name.