71 years later, Wrigley welcomes World tonight! | MLB.com

Let us hear it for a great lede:

The ivy is beginning to change from green to red, an awesome autumnal attribute the public has rarely, if ever, seen. The corner of Clark and Addison is bustling with activity in the final days of October, some people simply gawking at the old yard that is still blissfully open for business, others lined up on the off chance an unclaimed ticket should rain down from the heavens or, less majestically but still successfully, from the ticket booths. Over at the Harry Caray statue at Sheffield and Waveland, they’ve placed green apples at the legs of the beloved broadcaster, a nod to his long-ago promise that “sure as God made green apples, someday the Cubs are going to be in the World Series.”

Play ball!

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St. Paul in Ephesians about racism, sexism etc.? Not exactly.

In sermons or anywhere else, isms don’t work,  as used by a preacher in commenting on Paul in Ephesians saying husbands be good to wives, masters be good to slaves etc.: don’t be sexist, racist, etc.

Rather, say do not act as if you own people (you don’t) — as the homilist also said — but as if (in fact they are) your neighbors. (Like our landlady who calls us her neighbors and acts the part.)

In general, racism, sexism, god-knows-what-isms are not helpful, have lost their meaning, involve social analysis which is arguable in ways that treating people kindly and respectfully is not.

Do we want this family back in the White House?

They’re a rockin’ bunch, I’ll say that for ’em:

As promised by The National Enquirer, the Clinton “Fixer,” in an in depth interview, revealed documents from the past 24 years that show that both Bill and Hillary Clintoncolluded to cover up sexual adulteries and how those in the White House were complicit inthe cover up.

Zowie. They should have free love in their platform.

Send condolences to Congresswoman Jan about her husband losing his job

He having been cruelly outed as “diabolical” by an approving colleague with whom he works to create havoc at Trump rallies. The colleague added, “I love it” to his applying this normally opprobrious term.

It was in the midst of praising Mr. Jan’s tactics. Bob Creamer is his name. He also has done time for fraud. Nice Democrat family.

You should not miss the offending video in which Creamer is outed, not only by the colleague but in his own words. Project Veritas is the hero of this piece.

I love the Lynn Sweet notation:

The video, which had more than 4 million views as of Wednesday afternoon, surfaced as Trump is stepping up his assertion, without evidence, that the election system is rigged against him.

The “without evidence” part is cute, she having linked to what many would call evidence, if not of a rigged system, then of something that interferes mightily with the working of that system — undermining in fact. But Ms. Sweet has her position, does she not? Which at least did not stop her from doing the story.

Tooth twine? How some people talk(ed). American Scholar looking lively online

Falling love with a creative language-user:

Not just families but couples have words of their own, ones that can have great personal resonance. The essayist E. B. White said that what first attracted him to his wife-to-be Katharine was the fact that she considered tooth twine an improvement on “dental floss.” So did he. As White later observed, “I knew that a girl who called dental floss ‘tooth twine’ was the girl for me.”

Lots more at this refreshing site.