André Mayer

Watching the Red Sox on NESN; I’m old enough to remember when Rafael Devers looked younger than Tom Caron

John Adams’s Massachusetts constitution (1780) is notably more weighted towards separation of powers than the newer federal constitution.

The ground rules were already too complicated

He’s proposing it because he lives in his teen years, when the population of Gaza was (largely) displaced refugees and where they should end up was a reasonable question.

I had a professor in grad school who had written a book about White racism; he often had to explain that it wasn’t “Black history.”

Today’s Spelling Bee has its best words ever, and even accepts some of them

The change was apparently made during the first Trump administration?

But party membership is way down, no? So increasingly unrepresentative of the general public.

David Packard?

Though apparently not as bad as advertised

A lot of French Canadians went straight to where the mills were — Lowell MA, Woonsocket RI, etc.

Also, Clinton is younger than Bush, who’s younger than Trump.

Belongs with Pierre and The Confidence Man more than the maritime/South Seas books

I’m afraid it may be the aftereffects (for individuals and colleges) of the FAFSA screwup.

I know about them from Joan Didion

Not quite right, though — the UK for a time had a surcharge that pushed the top rate above 100%.

Well, yes. But the pre-2002 situation, when Boston and Chicago had won in 80 years, Philly once, and SF, Houston, Dallas and the Angels never, was great either.

If you really think there are as many baseball fans in KC or Pittsburgh as in NY, LA, or Boston, I guess you’re entitled to your opinion.

Viewers drive dollars, ultimately; granted that college football on cable used to be an exception.

Yes, but it’s not what most people are seeing/reading

But is there a problem? Why should teams with few fans have an equal chance? Look at it this way: the NFL is the Senate, MLB is the House.

They don’t expect to “win” votes — they hope to avoid being attacked on this issue.

Second terms tend to be a lot less successful than the first ones. Just saying.

Silas Marner was the worst; later found she’d written better books.

“Organized Labor” is the Dems’ Elon Musk — provides resources, can threaten in primaries, but is not a general election voting bloc.

Angus Burgin’s book isn’t the standard account, but I found it illuminating.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens to Harvard College.

TV showed the advent of the Millennium in cities around the world; when it hit midnight in Moscow and the lights stayed on, I figured we were okay.

Nonsense. Biden continues to be exactly what he’s been for decades, carefully positioning himself at the center of the Democratic Party as it existed in 1970.

Depends on whom you follow