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.
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)
Fri 3 Jul, 2026 07:33 am - [quote="kjw47"]
Many are being lied to with the words--you are saved-born again-get grace or salvation free. Every one of those who believe those words think they have faith. Peter... (view)
Fri 3 Jul, 2026 07:21 am - [b]Outstanding article, Hightor.
Saw Paul Krugman interviewed the other day. Great mind. And his comments when written make total sense.
I hope the move toward socialistic influences which... (view)
Thu 2 Jul, 2026 04:39 am - [quote="jespah"]
I remember the Bicentennial minutes on TV (I was at summer camp during the 4th). There was a cartoon in Newsday that was just colonial-themed, Yankee Doodles. Doonesbury... (view)
Fri 19 Jun, 2026 10:32 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
[quote]Meloni has accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her[/quote] at this point his lying brain is so addled that he can... (view)
Fri 19 Jun, 2026 08:16 am - Here is what I got from AI:
[color=#FF0000] The Boy Who Could Fly[/color], which shares thematic parallels with your memory, or more accurately, the obscure 1985 Canadian television... (view)