A new stamp honoring Frank Sinatra goes on sale next week.

My career-Army father is rolling in his grave. He thought the Rat Pack was a bunch of degenerate, irresponsible louts who hung around with crooks. That’s probably pretty accurate, but I always sort of liked those guys. The best description of them I ever heard was from blogger James Lileks several years ago. He said they were guys who “dressed like sharks and drank like fish” (sorry, can’t find that link).