I’m having a good morning. First, I get to pontificate a bit about baseball (thanks for the prompt, Welch), and now this: Rush has released a new “album,” Vapor Trails! Rush! Now, if Valerie Bertinelli shows up at my door in Daisy Duke-cutoffs and a wet t-shirt, asking to use my shower, I can call it a day…

Nice Matt Welch Reason column on the Cuba embargo and its cultural casualties — including Cuban baseball historian Severo Nieto, whose decades-long work remains unpublished. (Incidentally, Luis Tiant’s just not Hall of Fame material. He was good, sure, but given the caliber of his contemporaries since inducted to Cooperstown — Palmer, Ryan, Seaver, Carlton, Sutton, Niekro, G. Perry, Hunter, Drysdale, Koufax, Bunning — Tiant doesn’t quite make the cut. …Though

Nice Matt Welch Reason column on the Cuba embargo and its cultural casualties — including Cuban baseball historian Severo Nieto, whose decades-long work remains unpublished. (Incidentally, Luis Tiant’s just not Hall of Fame material. He was good, sure, but given the caliber of his contemporaries since inducted to Cooperstown — Palmer, Ryan, Seaver, Carlton, Sutton, Niekro, G. Perry, Hunter, Drysdale, Koufax, Bunning — Tiant doesn’t quite make the cut. …Though

Meryl Yourish reports on the Bay Area’s pro-Pal peacenik crowd — people who sometimes forget the whole “peaceful” bid’ness once the scent of unarmed Jew gets into the air: “The shame of SFSU“ [update: SFSU’s President, Robert A. Corrigan, responds. Sensibly.]

This is why I could never be an economist: Lands Endtrade; gets bought up by Sears….and its stock soars? What gives? I mean, are investors really that excited about oatmeal-heather anorak pullovers with the “Toughskin” label…?

This is why I could never be an economist: Lands Endtrade; gets bought up by Sears….and its stock soars? What gives? I mean, are investors really that excited about oatmeal-heather anorak pullovers with the “Toughskin” label…?

Ah, springtime! — sun glittering on the giblets…. Time to throw a hardbelly on the bush pad and hope she’ll set the puppies free, eh hoss…? Jammers, I’m talkin’ to here. Not the hype-suckers. You dig?

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Arnold Beichman — a Hoover Institute research fellow and a former U.N. correspondent — argues that the U.S. shouldn’t appease the United Nations, even if it means “going it alone”: The degradation of the U.N. is symbolized by the nose-thumbing action of the majority ensconced in the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. This is the same group that booted the United States last year in

So Rolling Stone has just put out its list of “The 50 Uncoolest Records” — a list that includes absolutely fantastic stuff by such musical luminaries as the Carpenters, the 5th Dimension, Neil Diamond… Hell, it even includes Bread’s Greatest Hits. Bread…! Bread “uncool“? You’ve got to be kidding me! I mean, since when did getting laid become “uncool”…? …Or are the chicks these days not falling for the whole

So Rolling Stone has just put out its list of “The 50 Uncoolest Records” — a list that includes absolutely fantastic stuff by such musical luminaries as the Carpenters, the 5th Dimension, Neil Diamond… Hell, it even includes Bread’s Greatest Hits. Bread…! Bread “uncool“? You’ve got to be kidding me! I mean, since when did getting laid become “uncool”…? …Or are the chicks these days not falling for the whole