Ah, the Lazy Life

Early afternoon, late summer. Humid, 83 degrees. The cicadas were whirring outside. I closed my laptop, got up from the desk in my home office and went to the bedroom. I lay down and began flipping through “The Church of Baseball,” a book by the screenwriter and director Ron Shelton about the making of his…

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Mitch McConnell May Be Experiencing Small Seizures, Doctors Suggest

A four-line letter, signed by the attending physician of Congress and released by Senator Mitch McConnell on Thursday, suggested that his recent spells of speechlessness were linked to “occasional lightheadedness” perhaps brought on by his recovery from a concussion last winter or “dehydration.” But seven neurologists, relying on what they described as unusually revealing video…

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