Vegas is fun for two days. On the third day it starts to turn. And on the fourth day it becomes soul-crushing. Back in 2016, I stayed there for a week to cover the Dem and Rep caucuses, which were on different days. It nearly broke me.

If you make it T’Publican, it sounds vaguely Vulcan.

May I introduce you to the San Francisco Giants?

He was amazing.

I first read that as calling him out for “Oxford comma,” which I would have wholeheartedly supported.

This is not going to help dispel that Hollywood trope of young female reporters getting scoops by sleeping with their sources.

Weird things that take 14 words to say?

Exododus! Movement of jah peopople!

During the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, voters elected 16 Blacks to Congress, including two senators from Mississippi. The last departed in 1901 as Jim Crow kicked in. It would be 28 years before another Black won a federal race and 71 years before one represented a Southern state