An enduringly controversial play in Pete Rose’s long, Hall of Fame-caliber Major League Baseball career had a certain Donald Trump quality to it. It’s a baseball-political link between the president and Rose, who died Sept. 30, 2024, at age 83, that, in hindsight, seems obvious. It’s one that became clear as day when Trump, on […]

A penny saved is a penny … urned? The possible impending death of the penny has piggy banks, give-a-penny-take-a-penny jars, and manufacturers of coin wrappers a bit nervous. In a move that would put the United States alongside Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the big deal commonwealth countries, more or less, President Donald Trump said […]

I have seen my share of action movies, monster movies, and, to my chagrin, horror movies, but seldom have I seen a movie that treated the human body so callously, so coldly, or so cavalierly as Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17. In his first outing behind the camera since 2019’s Oscar-winning sensation Parasite, Bong has made […]

Vice President JD Vance built upon his boss’s pushback to countries in the European Union that have been engaged in back-and-forth tariff threats with President Donald Trump. Trump has doled out tariffs to Canada, Mexico, and China during his second administration and has threatened to enact levies against the EU as well, largely in retaliation […]