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 18 Apr, 2026 02:38 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
It is impossible to overlook the fact that Trump has crossed the line between strategic eccentricity and outright madness.
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He has, indeed.... (view)
Mon 13 Apr, 2026 02:27 am - [b]So Trump thinks it is Pope Leo who is not doing a very good job.
Amazing!
It is to our great shame that Trump is the person we Americans have elected to be our leader.[/b] (view)
Mon 13 Apr, 2026 02:19 am - [quote="Wilso"]
“Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country... (view)
Thu 9 Apr, 2026 06:44 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
[quote="hightor"](Or they might be worse. The president is basically promising to wipe a civilization off the map.)[/quote]
What Trump clearly... (view)
Fri 3 Apr, 2026 09:27 am - [quote="hightor"]
It's unbelievable how few of them have had the integrity to object to what has happened to their party. But I've read a number of accounts about the threats... (view)
Thu 2 Apr, 2026 10:02 am - There are many Republican politicians who, when Trump’s time in office is up, will aver that they stayed quiet (acquiesced) in order to help protect the Republic from his most debilitating... (view)
Sun 22 Mar, 2026 08:16 am - It is incredible how classless Trump is. The fact that he is willing to post evidence of his classlessness is even more mind-boggling. (view)
Wed 18 Mar, 2026 10:26 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
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All they can do is to deflect...and that is just about all they ever do.
They are in... (view)
Wed 11 Mar, 2026 08:30 am - YESTERDAY was a great day here, too.
Temps up in the 70's.
Spring has not really yet sprung...but it is close.
Gonna swing my driver in the back 40 this afternoon. (view)
Mon 9 Mar, 2026 02:18 pm - [quote="izzythepush"]
The civilian population of Tehran is currently being exposed to a toxic cloud of chemicals due to the oil refinery being set ablaze.
They can't rise up... (view)
