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Can you tell me how to get ‘Sesame Street’ on my TV? The makers of “Sesame Street,” the children’s television show that has run on PBS for 45 years, announced that it has a new deal that gives HBO initial broadcast rights for new shows, with PBS getting the shows nine months later for free. The move frees up funding for the viewer-supported public network.

Considering the recent news of their breakup, I guess Kermit the Frog owes more in alimony to Miss Piggy than we first thought.

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Hot enough for you? The warm dry weather in recent months is resulting in lost business and work for some and increased costs for others. Landscape businesses and loggers have lost work, for example.

But it’s meant full employment for climate-change deniers who have had to work overtime to convince everyone else that this is perfectly normal.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1900, the U.S. Marines entered Beijing, China, to put down the Boxer Rebellion.

With the rebellion crushed, all were again free to wear briefs. (Though the Marines, of course, went commando.)

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