THIS Is Our Biggest Problem?

Oy. Remember last week when I mentioned how much I love it when George Will writes about baseball? Well, have I told you how much I love it when George Will writes about baseball?

What the hell is this?

Good gravy Marie. Is this really such a problem? That we wear clothing inappropriate to our tasks? Hey, George. Is that tie helping you to write? Dude, maybe we just like the way it looks. Or the way it feels. Or the way it doesn't wear out as quickly as those three-piece suits you wear.

Crikey, if this is your biggest concern then we've got nothing to worry about here in this country. Do we?

Will and Grace

I've noted several times that as much as I disagree with George Will politically, I do respect him. And when he writes about baseball, I downright love him. He has great knowledge of the game's history, rules and arcana, and he's a fantastic writer.

He has a terrific piece in today's WaPo about umpires, which I can't recommend highly enough.

The whole thing is great but this particular bit is priceless.

"Sport -- strenuous exertion structured and restrained by rules -- replicates the challenges of political freedom. Umpires, baseball's judicial branch, embody what any society always needs and what America, in its current financial disarray, craves -- regulated striving that, by preventing ordered competition from descending into chaos, enables excellence to prevail."

I'm swooning. Enjoy.