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.
Tue 8 Jul, 2025 06:21 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
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[b]Once again: The same thing I just said to Bobsal and... (view)
Tue 8 Jul, 2025 06:18 am - [quote="bobsal u1553115"]
Trump's Insanity
Musings of a stable genius;
Donald Trump: “Doug Burgum, he was the great governor of North Carolina... He's the... (view)
Sat 5 Jul, 2025 08:40 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
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[b]All of us...especially the Trumpers...should be hiding... (view)
Tue 24 Jun, 2025 11:36 am - [quote="thack45"]
Stupid enough to think he can solve decades of only-ever-increasingly labyrinthine ME religious conflict using the maga formula of ignorance, reductionism,... (view)
Fri 13 Jun, 2025 06:32 am - [quote="hightor"]
This thread is getting as depressing as the global warming and the end of the world threads. Heather Cox Richardson manages to offset the despair to some degree. I... (view)
Sat 31 May, 2025 06:25 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
this makes me happy...
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I understand that.
It even deserves an instant replay!... (view)
Fri 30 May, 2025 10:40 am - [quote="hightor"]
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Just got back from a shopping trip with my wife...and I... (view)
Thu 22 May, 2025 07:42 am - [quote="izzythepush"]
You can fight back.
Our Labour government has had to reverse cuts to the Winter fuel payment for pensioners.
Just a few weeks ago they were saying the cuts... (view)
Thu 22 May, 2025 05:13 am - [quote]“There are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. I do not agree. We have the power to shape the civilization that we want.... (view)