I'm a golf nut. Retired and playing 5 times a week. About 200 rounds last year--not bad for someone playing 100% of his rounds in New Jersey. But despite all the action, I still manage to play to a handicap in the high teens.
I write lots of letters to the editor and op ed pieces. I've had a letter published in The New York Times--and I was lucky enough a few years back to get a full page My Turn article in Newsweek. I've had hundreds of letters published in local newspapers--and have had tens of dozens of op ed essays and guest columns published also.
I also do crossword puzzles, much to my wife's dismay at night. I do at least one NY Times Sunday sized puzzle every day. (In pencil, with lots of erasures.)
I have become an agnostic activist because I truly think the world would be a better place if we all acknowledged our agnosticism. I believe, if you will excuse that seemingly incongruous expression, that everyone is an agnostic. It's just that we agnostics come in two categories--those who acknowledge that we don't know the answers to unanswerable questions; and those who pretend to know. That latter category includes the theists and the atheists (two sides of one coin)--both of whom suppose they know the answers to those unanswerable questions.
Wed 29 Jul, 2026 03:08 am - This may be under a paywall, but it is important to read. I consider it to be a spectacular piece. It was written by Chrystia Freeland, a former deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs... (view)
Sat 25 Jul, 2026 02:19 am - [quote="Brandon9000"]
The filing excerpt does not explicitly state that officials chose those grants in order to punish states for their political preferences, voters, elected officials,... (view)
Fri 24 Jul, 2026 04:46 am - [quote="hightor"]
[quote] have been thinking lately about taxes and war and citizens and what
the government should do for its people. In early March 1953, soon after Republican... (view)
Fri 17 Jul, 2026 10:39 am - [b][size=150]I have no idea of why Trump thinks that any country would want to prevent him from being elected in order to harm the United States, but it must be VERY mistaken ego. The best, surest... (view)
Fri 17 Jul, 2026 10:26 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
From a purely sporting point of view, the World Cup was anything but boring.
But isn’t the aim of hosts of such events always to improve their image?... (view)
Thu 16 Jul, 2026 09:25 am - [quote="hightor"]
Oops – posted Heather Cox Richardson's [url=https://able2know.org/topic/596156-5#post-7424837]Letters from an American[/url] in the wrong topic this morning!... (view)
Sun 12 Jul, 2026 10:24 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
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Good grief, I love this one, Reeg! (view)
Sat 4 Jul, 2026 12:24 pm - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
[quote]A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money... (view)