From industrial space to offices to now (possibly) apartments, the old ‘Boston Wharf Co.’ building in Boston’s Fort Point has seen it all. Let’s hope the iconic sign survives the latest conversion.

Why not? It’s only a fantasy draft. … Fyi: She’s not on the Post and NYT lists.

The Biden family is out of it.

Can you imagine Fox News ever calling on Donald Trump to step aside for the good of the party and the nation? No. But that’s exactly what the NYT just did with Joe Biden, asking that he step aside for the good of the party and the nation. … It’s another example of how the GOP and Democratic Party — and their main media allies – differ these days, one side pandering to its extreme elements while the other is at least trying to self-police its ranks.

Update – Add the Atlanta Constitution to media outlets urging Biden to step aside. But the Philadelphia Inquirer is taking a different tack, something I missed first time around and got wrong. It’s basically mocking the NYT’s call for Biden to step aside. . … Of course, he’s not going to step aside.

Reading this NYT piece on Jill Biden and Bari Weiss’s piece on Biden’s health and who knew (or should have known) he wasn’t doing so well, I thought of … Woodrow Wilson. 

Granted, growing old (fast) isn’t the same as suffering a debilitating stroke. But there are eerie parallels, including the spinning, denying and hiding of truths about a president’s well-being. 

Or Shapiro–Whitmer. Same difference. And they both come from key swing states.  … Needless to say, it’s not going to happen. But that’s the fun of fantasy. It doesn’t require reality.

Joe Klein on last night’s disastrous debate for Biden: “It was worse than disastrous. It was sad, it was humiliating. Biden looked like a hospice patient who got lost on his way to the bathroom. … Trump was Trump. A lying, petulant charlatan. But that won’t make much difference. He didn’t even need to point out how frail Biden seemed—although at one point, he said, ‘I don’t understand what he just said.’ Neither did I, neither did anyone.”

If you hate network TV’s God-awful ‘personalized’ coverage of the Olympics – where there’s a sentimental, tear-jerker story behind every overcoming-adversity athlete – then brace yourself for the NBA’s coming Bron Show. … Have the Brons signed a Netflix contract yet? … I wonder what JJ Redick is thinking. Has it dawned on him yet what he’s truly gotten into? 

You wouldn’t know it from the story’s innocuous headline, but the Globe’s James Pindell gives President Biden a big fat ‘F’ for his debate performance last night. … And here’s why Dems can’t and won’t replace Biden against his will. 

Update – But it sure is fun thinking of all the fantasy draft possibilities. I’d like to see Gov. Whitmer get the nod. Not so Harris or Newsom.

Update II — The headline on Joan V’s post-debate assessment says it all: “Trump’s craziness might not matter if Biden looks this old.”

Pamela Paul, who considers herself a liberal Dem (and she is), has a good column on what too often occurs when moderate Democrats disagree with PC progressive Democrats. I’m definitely with Paul on this one: 

“Those on the Democratic side of the spectrum have traditionally been far better at nuance, complexity and compromise than Republicans. It would be to our detriment if policies on which a broad swath of Americans agree are deliberately tanked by a left wing that has moved as far to the left as Republicans have moved to the right. Those who denounce militant fealty within the Republican Party shouldn’t enforce similar purity tests in their own ranks.”