Dear Jolters, Big Jim Geraghty is out today, either galavanting or collecting info for a prize-winning political exposé (before he high-tailed it, Jim left us this great report on "Lindsey Graham, Comedian-in-Chief"). They never tell me anything. Except: "Fowler, get out there. And try getting it over the plate." Relief pitching, it's an art. One done pretty well for a couple of years, back in the 60s and early 70s, by Fred Gladding, who led the NL is saves in 1969 while tossing for the Astros (he started his career with the Tigers). He died last month, so let's remember "The Bear" in our prayers.  Worth noting: He was a bad hitter. A horrible hitter. In fact, of those major leaguers who do not own a .000 batting average, he has the worst: .016. One measly hit in 63 at bats (although somehow he drove in three runs). On to politics and some suggestions of what to read today from the cornucopia of wisdom that is NationalReview.com. Get a taste of my knuckleball! Geez is it tough to keep up with the Left's endless new jargon. Like "trigger warning." Our David French has a must-read piece on the academic advocates of such nonsense, which has nothing to do with campus compassion, and everything to do with power and trampling on the First Amendment. A sample: Trigger warnings have nothing to do with compassion and everything to do with power. Indeed, their prevalence is itself a raw exercise of power, a statement to the establishment authorities in higher education that the radicals intend to dictate the terms of debate. The American Association of College Professors — the venerable (and liberal) organization dedicated to defending the academic freedom and other prerogatives of the professors — has called trigger warnings a "threat to academic freedom." No matter. Radicals do as they wish. And where the radicals reign, even their so-called compassion manifests itself as cruelty and censorship. Related: There are such things now as conferences on "White Privilege." Oregon's Gresham-Barlow district held one, at a cost to taxpayers of $100,000. The great Kat Timpf files a typically excellent report on just what happened. Ten things (just ten?!) about Pope Francis's climate-change encyclical caught Kathryn Jean Lopez's eye. She provides a worthwhile collection of links to important early reactions. Joel Gehrke, ace D.C. reporter, has an NR exclusive: HRC henchman Sidney Blumenthal's e-mail to the then–secretary of state on how she should spin Qaddafi's fall. One more thing before I run out to eat a box of doughnuts: They came for the trans-fat, and next they're coming for the salt, sugar, and caffeine (lucky lard!). Julie Gunlock explains the Big Ban theory. Okay, now go and book that last remaining cabin on the NR 2015 Alaska Summer Cruise -- you can do it at www.nrcruise.com. Me and Sparky Lyle will be seeing you tomorrow. God bless, Jack Fowler Publisher | 
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