I Kind of Like Series Games with 11 Innings

 

First Paragraph

On the night of February 27,1933, smoke and flames gutting the Reichstag building in Berlin marked the Wagnerian end of the short-lived German democracy.

- From The Crucial Years 1939-1941 by Hanson W. Baldwin

Three for Pure Pleasure

There are some books that bring pure pleasure via the content and the writing.

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
• Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

They should be read and re-read.

Breaks: Jamie Farr and Red Skelton

 

Street Fight

Commentary magazine's Seth Mandel on the Heritage Foundation controversy.