Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare

• This is brilliant: “If you love Broadway’s Hamilton, prepare yourself for Harrison!”

• President Obama, on live TV, ad-libs a first-draft of the political history of the past seven years, and nails it:

• Where will we find the next Bernie Sanders? That could be up to Bernie himself. As Matt Yglesias argues, Sanders “can still lead a political revolution — even if he loses.”

• Scot McKnight shared this graphic and directs our attention to Neil Greenberg’s history of the longball:

Greenberg focuses on steroids and park effects, but the swollen right-hand side of that chart could also be regarded as the post-Aristide era of baseball. Rawlings — the maker of official Major League baseballs — fled Haiti after Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president. (Rawlings opened a Costa Rican facility in 1986, but didn’t leave Haiti until they panicked over the radical priest’s landslide victory.) The new balls, stitched in Costa Rica, seem to fly farther.

In other words, yes, steroids skewed everything in the 1990s, but liberation theology, American colonialism, and anti-labor multinationals imitating the East India Company also played a part. You have to put all those together to get to something as strange as Brady freaking Anderson joining the 50-home-run club.

• “Pause for a moment to commiserate with people who have or have had to endure grinding poverty and the ice-cold, pursed-lipped, ‘charity’ of anything like David French.”

• Apparently there’s something called “Confederate Flag Day” in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That’s every bit as stupid and repugnant as the idea of hosting German Flag Day in Paris.

Confederate Flag supporters were terribly upset that they were met with protesters who used harsh language. That’s a bit silly, considering what happened the first time anybody showed up in Gettysburg trying to wave that emblem of treason, slavery, rape, trafficking and torture.

Next time, I hope the protesters refrain from profanity and angry shouting. Instead, they should just endlessly chant “Looooooo-zerrrrs! Looooooo-zerrrs!” After all, there’s no need to engage in an argument or to get in a fight with the fans of that symbol of disgrace — that argument and that fight were already settled, conclusively, 153 years ago.

• What the heck, let’s stay in 1994 musically. Here’s Beck with an anthem for Confederate Flag Day: