Greetings! The right’s gonna love this: Matt Calkins, a Seattle Times sports columnist for more than a decade, resigned after the outlet allegedly spiked his column in support of two high school female athletes who resisted competing against biological males. NewsBusters has the details.  And here’s the rejected column that Calkins posted on his Substack. Worth noting: The NY Post jumped on the story this morning and published a column by Calkins about why he quit and also reprinted the spiked article.  This story may have legs...Gag alert: American Greatness has published a list of the Trump administration’s greatest accomplishment in the last year and concludes that it’s the “most consequential presidency in generations”...Surprising as it seems, the conservative entertainment blog Hollywood in Toto is intrigued by what it describes as a woke, queer slasher film helmed by a trans director. The blog notes that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is performing well in limited release and may be poised for success as it expands to more theaters this weekend. The blog usually goes thumbs down on any movie that reeks of woke...Weekend watch: The eight-part Hulu series Furious ranks as the darkest program I’ve seen this year. Nonetheless, the story about a damaged rookie female FBI agent on the trail of young woman serial killer in NYC bristles with originality and has moments that are genuinely thrilling. Weekend whiff: Sunday afternoon, Fox broadcasts the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, the Trump-created IndyCar race in the nation’s capital. The cars will zip around the 1.66-mile course through some of DC’s most iconic streets. It’s another sad attempt to turn the capital into a theme park. Not for me....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Mark your calendars.  September 9 and 10 are the dates for the first ever GOP midterm convention.  It’s being held in Dallas and details on the convention website are few other than Trump has promised to speak both nights (natch!).  But I’ve got questions. What news channels (if any) will provide wall-to-wall coverage? Will mainstream outlets send a correspondent and crew or will they completely ignore it because they think it’s a nothingburger?....Far-right columnist Todd Starnes asserts that drag queens are touring America mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk who was gunned down almost a year ago...Trump is doing his former fixer Michael Cohen a huge favor by agreeing to an interview with the disgraced lawyer. Cohen now hosts a radio show on NYC’s WABC-AM where the recorded interview will interview tonight at 6 p.m. ET. It will also be available Sunday as a podcast. This development marks another twist in Cohen’s peculiar on-again, off-again relationship with Trump.  As you may recall, he went to jail in 2019 for work he did for The Donald as his personal lawyer. Cohen even wrote a scathing book in 2020 – Disloyal: A Memoir – about his experiences working for Trump. Here’s just one sentence from the book that tells you everything about their relationship: “The President of the United States wanted me dead.” This could be one of the strangest Trump interviews of the year, but Cohen's show is sure to benefit from all the publicity...Dept. of news guaranteed to put a smile on your face: Vogue has unveiled its special Dogue issue featuring a celebration of celebrity dogs, profiles of NYC’s most coordinated dog walkers, and a photo essay on the dogs who ride (with their owners) on New York’s subway.  The issue is timed – wait for it – for the dog days of summer...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard