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 18 Aug, 2026 03:28 am - [quote="jufa"]
If you could have, you wouldn't be meandering, shooting down the street and cutting around the corner wasting your energy and my time. But that what happen when one... (view)
Mon 17 Aug, 2026 10:38 am - [quote="izzythepush"]
Trump has just threatened to bomb US ally Oman if it gets in the way of the Hormuz deal with Iran.
At the same time he is calling off military drills with South... (view)
Mon 17 Aug, 2026 08:34 am - [quote="jufa"]
How does one get busy dying without collateral of permanence? Was it by realizing your human destiny is locked in a circle of humanism? The very second you were birthed... (view)
Sat 15 Aug, 2026 06:41 am - [b][size=150]I am now 90 years old...and the oldest member of my extended family. I feel a lot more positivity in my life than I read in what you wrote. (I acknowledge that I may have misread what... (view)
Thu 6 Aug, 2026 02:09 pm - [quote="izzythepush"]
Trump has denied that there's a weapons shortage, and that the 'information leakers,' will be 'hunted down.'
If there is no weapons... (view)
Sat 1 Aug, 2026 01:47 pm - [quote="izzythepush"]
If Lash were here she'd probably tell us to imagine Hilary Clinton as president in a super charged doomsday scenario.
Which would be the only other... (view)
Sat 1 Aug, 2026 10:27 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
[size=85][Posted this already on the other thread][/size]
Doesn’t any of Trump’s supporters actually realise this?
As recently as early July,... (view)
Sat 1 Aug, 2026 05:44 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
[size=85]CNN Breaking News:[/size]
[size=150]Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was flawed, drops case against former Olympian[/size]
The... (view)
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)