It is Hall of Fame ballot season for baseball again, and anyone that gets voted in will join the men who were voted in last year for induction this summer, if it happens. The temperature of the ballots that have trickled in this year show a lot of uncertainty of whether anyone will get enough votes at all. There are a few guys that are close but have been stalling out below the threshold as their years of eligibility run out, and a few guys that have been rising quite a bit b

Recent news events have led some public figures to call the actions of social media companies “Orwellian” for banning Donald Trump and thousands of his followers who had advocated for political violence. It’s kind of a litmus test for stupidity to see people misuse the term “Orwellian” or basic application of the First Amendment, but it did get me thinking about the movie 1984. I have a strangely nostalgic relationship to the movie and recently purchased the Criterion release