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.
Fri 8 May, 2026 08:44 am - [quote="hightor"]
[quote] Rather, it would be to introduce something thats been AWOL in politics since 2008—compromise.[/quote]
Spot on, as usual, jespah.
I wish my... (view)
Fri 8 May, 2026 03:26 am - [quote="glitterbag"]
It still makes me sad that my grand daughter knew Obama as her first President and really glommed onto Hillary for the next. She was shocked, but I'm... (view)
Fri 8 May, 2026 03:22 am - [quote="jespah"]
It feels a lot like this is what happened in '20. And I say this as someone who likes Joe Biden.
I imagine the prevailing thought for a lot of people six years... (view)
Thu 7 May, 2026 02:18 am - [quote="hightor"]
I'm afraid that I've been guilty of that, Frank.
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[quote] I've got more to say in response to your comments, Hightor, but I've got a... (view)
Wed 6 May, 2026 06:10 pm - [quote="hightor"]
I'm afraid that I've been guilty of that, Frank.
Writing as a Democrat, it didn't matter as much when the GOP ran reasonable candidates, you could... (view)
Wed 6 May, 2026 08:21 am - If, during the primary elections, you deem some candidates to be more competent than their opponents, but less electable***...would you be more inclined to vote for the more competent person to be... (view)
Sun 3 May, 2026 09:54 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
Six months ahead of the mid-term elections, President Trump and the Republican Party are facing an extremely unfavourable political climate, according to a... (view)
Fri 1 May, 2026 08:30 am - [quote="izzythepush"]
[quote="Frank Apisa"]
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You do not sound very happy or content, Izzy.
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That's because you don't know how almost everybody... (view)
Fri 1 May, 2026 06:40 am - [quote="izzythepush"]
Don't be so passive agressive.
Instead of responding to any of the points I made about English law you attacked my grammar.
When I pointed out you were... (view)