How does ESPN muck up the televising of baseball games? Let me count the ways. Not only does ESPN disfigure the game screen with that pointless strike zone box and those X marks at the spots where the pitch arrives,…

What an amazing spectacle at the Republican National Convention. Towards the end of a speech during which GOP delegates were cheering Cruz, the crowd turned on him when he implored delegates and those of us watching at home to vote…

Writer, director, producer and occasional actor Garry Marshall passed away on Tuesday of pneumonia following a stroke. He was 81. Marshall cut his teeth as a writer in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s of TV on shows like The…

As expected, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against China’s expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea. The Philippines was exultant. Beijing responded angrily. Territorial disputes pose a perennial international problem. Great powers, including the U.S.,…

For the fourth time in just over a decade, I saw Paul McCartney in concert. Of the four occasions, three have taken place at Fenway Park. (Here’s my account of Macca’s July 2013 appearance at Yawkey Way.) This time around,…

If you are headed to Cleveland for the GOP Convention, feel free to take your AR 15 assault rifle and your .357 Magnum handgun, but leave behind your squirt guns, umbrellas, and paintball guns, or you may end up in…

Qandeel Baloch, a model considered Pakistan’s version of Kim Kardashian, was strangled in her sleep by her brother in an honor killing during a visit to her parents’ home. Baloch, whose given name was Fouzia Azeem, was 25. Her brother…

Watching on Fox the tragic news out of Baton Rouge. More cops ambushed and killed — seven shot, three dead at the moment. And this is not an important enough story for NBC, CBS, or ABC to break into regular programming. NBC and ABC give us…

At this hour, it appears that the military coup in Turkey has failed with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan back on Turkish soil. If Erdogan is restored to power then Turkish secularism is truly dead and so is the military that…

As you no doubt know by now a truck drove through a crowd of pedestrians celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. The driver also shot at people as he proceeded through the crowd. According to French President Francois Hollande, 80 people…