Category: Bill Shea
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If scumbag Pete Rose is going to Cooperstown, let’s radically remake baseball’s hall of fame
I am proposing a seriously unserious (maybe?) plan to open Cooperstown to all the criminals, degenerates, freaks, weirdness, scandals, and hilarity that make baseball a true reflection of America
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Goodbye, Andor. And thanks for all the lessons.
Season 2 of “Andor” exceeded my expectations and now the series is over. But our struggle is only beginning, and this well-made space drama is a guidebook for rebellion.
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Writer’s blockhead: Trump evils, horny popes, Triple-A Wrexham, and Buckaroo Banzai
To overcome writer’s block, I’ve unloaded my strange and broken mind in this newsletter that includes the usual Trump regime fascism complaints but also dieting, middle age, Shedeur Sanders, popes that fuck, stadium finance rip-offs, Francis Ford Coppola getting weird about piss, Canadian politics, Warren Zevon, Andor, and a wonderful batshit ’80s sci-fi movie
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Trump’s tariff lies are suicidal madness
Rotting mad king Donald Trump promises a golden era of new U.S. factories producing all we need domestically, but does anyone believe they’ll pay good UNION wages?
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It’s hard to give a shit about sports these days
As Donald Trump wrecks American democracy and trashes the Bill of Rights, worrying about brackets and batting averages is harder to do. But sports are a platform of resistance, too.
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RIP, Hunter S. Thompson. You’d hate Donald Trump’s America
The Gonzo journalist, whose writing warned us of the ugly and stupid fascist nightmare of the Trump years, died 20 years ago today
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Detroit NBC station cuts off SNL special before tribute to hometown icon Gilda Radner
WDIV Ch. 4 dumped to local news 13 minutes before the SNL 50th anniversary special ended with Jane Curtain and Laraine Newman holding up Gilda Radner’s photo during the sign-off
