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A Day Without a Shortstop

[Amy Bass, Morphizm]
Five years ago, there was a crazy number of Jews playing for the Boston Red Sox. Or, well, three: Gabe Kapler, Kevin Youkilis, and Adam Stern. It wasn’t the most Jews ever to populate a major league lineup; that distinction goes to the 1946 New York Giants, who had five [...]

Contact Misconduct

[Amy Bass, Morphizm]
If a baseline definition of contact is to make a connection with someone other than yourself, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin should have a lot of friends. The International Broadcast Centre in Vancouver last month was not the ideal location to be quietly rooting for Russia, but even my Canadian colleagues understood and [...]

Mr. Tiger Woods Goes to Washington

[Amy Bass, Morphizm]
I don’t care what Tiger had to say. Indeed, sitting here in Vancouver at the Winter Olympic Games, I barely listened. I was more concerned about what Bode Miller’s next fantastic move was going to be, partially because I adore Bode Miller and partially because I did not want to hear [...]

Go Tell it on the Golf Course: The Conversion of Tiger Woods

[Amy Bass, Morphizm]
(or, How Charlie Sheen Once Shot his Fiancée and Lived to Become the Highest Paid Actor on Television)
I really felt that there was nothing left to say about Tiger Woods after Frank Rich’s brilliant piece in The New York Times several weeks ago. Apparently, Fox analyst Brit Hume disagrees. Now normally, I [...]

Barack Obama, W.E.B. Du Bois, Adolf Hitler:

[Amy Bass, Morphizm]
History is never about the past. It wasn’t then. It isn’t now. In the midst of a lot of people who don’t seem to understand this, Barney Frank does. His confrontation in August with Rachel Brown of the La Rouche Youth Movement demonstrated how the national debate on health care reform, which was [...]