This is so much more than I thought possible when the season began last April. The bullpen remains a weak spot. Jake Arrieta can't be expected to pitch every game. Jon Lester is not at his peak, and Dan Haren has a huge disappointment. Still, here the Cubbies are, in the playoffs.

"'Young Frankenstein' it isn't, but then again if also isn't the morbid Grand Guignol-gory outing that 'Andy Warhol's Frankenstein' and 'Andy Warhol's Dracula' were. This Richard O'Brien musical is simply too exuberant and too funny to be seriously decadent. Indeed, there's an underlying quality of tenderness and even innocence in this loving send-up of horror and sci-fi flicks and celebration of post-graduate sexuality."

Nonetheless, the film's unabashedly avant-garde (and also silly) take on gender identity and human sexuality so throttled and unnerved prudish studio executives that they immediately pulled  "Rocky Horror" from the Westwood Theater and shelved it, after only a single weekend onscreen.

Revived the following year with its first midnight showing at the Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village, "Rocky Horror" has since endeared itself to several generations of counterculture misfits and poseurs alike to become what's arguably the greatest cult film in cinema history. And so, what was once seen as terribly risqué and subversive is now resolutely mainstream.

Suddenly Breitbart "News" Loves the Pope

But suddenly today, they're singing the Pope's praises and congratulating him for sticking his nose into American politics -- and you can probably guess why: Huckabee: Pope Congratulated Kim Davis for Stand Against `Tyranny'.

And then, the main event: anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis will receive the "Cost of Discipleship Award," because she's suffered so much for her bigotry. Man, these people are nuts.

BTW, the Democrats are charging $1.6 million for exactly the same privilege.  

This myth seems to really take on zombie qualities.  People refuse to believe it even when confronted with actual information.

In my conversations with the urologist about what things in my diet or meds could be causing this that was one of the first questions I had.  Because I had heard it myself and I drink lots of milk. Lots.  Probably a gallon a week at least.  Non fat btw.
He said not not is it not bad but it actually can help prevent kidney stones.

You know, I have no problem with men showing emotion.  Or women for that matter.

But when you can't get through a interview or a news conference without crying.  When you seem to carry around a hanky IN YOUR HAND, you know what.

I think that's  a little weird.  And might just point to qualities of instability that might not be that great for the third most powerful man in the country.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested over the weekend that the Republican presidential candidates were so "laughable" that "the people of Iran look at them as a form of entertainment."

"Sometimes when I would have time some of [the Republican presidential debates were] broadcast live and I would watch it," Rouhani told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "Some of it was quite laughable. It was very strange, the things that they spoke of."

"Some of them wouldn't even know where Tehran was in relation to Iran," the president said with a smile. "Some of them wouldn't know where Iran was geographically, not distinguishing that one is the capital of the other. What they spoke of was quite far away from the truth."

"So, the people of Iran were looking at it as a form of entertainment, if you will, and found it laughable," he added.