Today, no Trump, no science, no nostalgia....only Major League Baseball.  So if you hate this subject, please return tomorrow.  Fantasy baseball, quoting ESPN, is a silly little game, but once you play, you'll be hooked for life. Allegiance shifts from your traditional favorite team to those players you draft for your fantasy teams.  I'll probably again sign up for three teams.  I'm not into the NBA nor NHL, and there are no college games of any kind in the summer.  The sport to watch then is only Major League Baseball.  Each game you see becomes more meaningful when your players are on the screen, and every pitch or plate appearance by your player is consequential to you.  You cheer players not on your team to strike out or pitch a home run ball or get injured, accepting the morality that this is all fake and not real. I'll also watch the Los Angeles Dodgers on TV, for they play just about all their games televised into Hawaii.  One's day ...

On this Day 13 of our cruise on the Norwegian Encore from Seattle to Miami, I feature Guatemala and  Costa Rica.... no t Guat a mala and Costa Ric o .  Then, of course, on November 3, we remain on board and sail away to Southampton, UK. But before the topic of today, here is something from the morning  New York Times,  sharing the latest doings of Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican Party. Republican Campaign Meet the new Project 2025: The America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank,   is planning for a Trump win . It wants ultrasounds before all abortions, work requirements for Medicaid and federal workers who can be fired at will. Trump said   he would fire Jack Smith , the special counsel who indicted him over the Jan. 6 riot and classified documents, if he were elected again. His lawyers are also seeking to   dismiss the Jan. 6 case , arguing that Smith was illegally appointed. Trump has floated the idea of   replacing income taxe...

Rachel Maddow can now be called executive producer, for she last night showed her first documentary film,   From Russia with Lev .  The   follow-on program provided further details .  If you missed it, quickly record a replay, today, Saturday, 2PM, MSNBC.  This film should not be confused with a   2016 religious book with the same title . Think back to those days when Donald Trump was president, and he tried to extort new president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, leading to Trump's impeachment.  He was trying to taint Joe Biden through his son Hunter to eliminate Joe from running against him in 2020. If you read through the entirety of a lengthy  Wikipedia  treatment of this  Trump-Ukraine scandal , light mention is made of Lev Parnas ( left of Trump ) and Igor Fruman ( extreme left ) as associates of Rudy Giuliani.  Well, the documentary is all about the role of Parnas.  How the story went is in part shocking, yet revealing, about the do...