Despite the darkness in Simpson Asylum this week, there were two words visibly scrawled above a number of door frames. Those two words are “carpe diem,” or “seize the day,” a Latin exhortation originating from Horace, but one which the modern listener remembers mainly as Robin Williams’ refrain in the 1989 film “Dead Poets Society.” ...
As October comes to a close, the American media apparatus begins its biennial harvest. The “October surprise” is an event wherein political actors and campaigns unleash last-ditch negative PR about their opponents, while the media collects and reports it. The goal is to make a party’s opponent look personally bad, because a voter’s final decision...
This Friday, Oct. 25, the nation will witness the twelfth edition of a tale as old as Major League Baseball, as the Los Angeles Dodgers will play the New York Yankees in the World Series. On its face, it would appear that this tale is getting old. The Dodgers have a record 25 National League...
Pete Rose, one of the most prolific hitters in MLB history and a member of the all-century team, died on Sept. 30 at the age of 83. The following day, former president Trump reacted to the news via X. “Major League Baseball should have let him in the Hall of Fame many years ago. Do...
Three weeks ago, the Atlantic Coast Conference’s University of California at Berkeley Golden Bears football team dealt the Southeastern Conference’s Auburn University Tigers a shocking 21-14 loss in Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium. The story is not the long-overdue upset win, but the conference. Obviously, Berkeley is nowhere near the Atlantic Coast, but is nonetheless in the...