Another great year! …FOR CROSSWORD PUZZLES ONLY AND SPECIFICALLY. — Another great year! …FOR CROSSWORD PUZZLES ONLY AND SPECIFICALLY. Given that the vast majority of the potential solving public spent most of the year stuck indoors for reasons, we spent a whole lotta time filling in grids. A few new features debuted, the tournament scene shifted online, charity projects proliferated…

Oyez, oyez, oyez! Once more we meet! — The Supreme Court’s casual anteroom. Enter CLARENCE THOMAS, RUTH BADER GINSBURG, STEPHEN BREYER, JOHN ROBERTS, SAMUEL ALITO, SONIA SOTOMAYOR, ELENA KAGAN, NEIL GORSUCH, and BRETT KAVANAUGH. JOHN ROBERTS. Oyez, oyez, oyez! Once more we meet Reviewing what to view, deciding what We shall decide ourselves in judgment high. More cases…

Enter KIM JONG UN, tweeting. — Scene IV Enter KIM JONG UN, tweeting. KIM JONG UN It is no mere threat but a reality: Beneath my finger Armageddon lies. From my workstation’s timber quietude To all U.S. municipalities, My phalanx-flick could kill by atom-fire. Enter TRUMP, tweeting. TRUMP. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, Has…

IVANKA TRUMP and JARED KUSHNER sit at the head of a dinner-table, with DONALD TRUMP JR. in the middle and ERIC TRUMP near its foot. No… — Shakespeare’s Trump, Act III, Scene III IVANKA TRUMP and JARED KUSHNER sit at the head of a dinner-table, with DONALD TRUMP JR. in the middle and ERIC TRUMP near its foot. No chairs are empty. IVANKA. I think we must attend the funeral. Our absence would insult th’aristocrats.

Scene I — Scene I Enter JASON in alley. JASON. I cannot breathe for bile in bubbling lungs, And I, physician, have no remedy. Again, again, the President doth claim Our sole healthcare achievement of this age Is but a tenpin to be overturn’d. And finally he seems to bowl a strike, With…

Tree in winter. Enter GIGI and KIKI, young women. — Tree in winter. Enter GIGI and KIKI, young women. GIGI. Let’s go. KIKI We can’t. GIGI Why not? KIKI We wait for the report, For Mueller’s mule-work mull’d throughout Mall’s mile. We wait for proof of what the Don’s acts prove, That Russian propagandists crown’d him Prez, That they, not…

Enter BREITBART REPORTER. Enter BANNON. — Enter BREITBART REPORTER. Enter BANNON. BREITBART REPORTER. Congratulations, sire, on your return To Brietbart journalism, your root-soil, Though some yardsticks would say you never left. We true conservatives have serv’d the cons To pros’ prosaic milkblood government, In words assaulting feminazi Jews, The gun-controlling diaper-soiling brats, The anti-Nazi Nazis, Muslims…