We know football season is getting close when Gregg Easterbrook’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” is back. For those not familiar with this must-read football column, “TMQ” is a unique blend of gridiron Xs and Os, cheerleader pics, and random political, economic, and scientific musings.

Besides being an ESPN columnist, Easterbrook is also a fellow at Brookings, and while I often disagree with his public-policy stands on energy and the environment, he’s always interesting. A note (uh, which is not the same thing as “exegesis,” Gregg) on WFB’s passing is among the inaugural week’s musings.

Buckley and His Wife Both Died of Emphysema; Though a Conservative, Late in Life He Advocated a Federal Ban Against Cigarettes; If You Smoke, Think About That: TMQ will also miss William F. Buckley. Somehow it was a fitting exclamation point to his extraordinary life that Buckley managed, in his passing, to get the word “sesquipedalian” on the front page of the New York Times, in the headline of his obituary. Note — or as Buckley would say, exegesis — his son Chris’ new comic novel Supreme Courtship is hysterical.