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 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)
Fri 12 Jun, 2026 11:30 am - Elon Musk just made the jump from puny multi-billionaire...to Trillionaire.
Gonna be more of them soon.
The top 1% of families now own one-third of the total wealth of our nation. The top 10%... (view)
Thu 11 Jun, 2026 10:19 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
And he continued stupidity:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/kGLCKoEl.png[/img]
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Mon 8 Jun, 2026 11:45 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
[quote="Frank Apisa"][b][size=200]Is there a prize?[/size][/b]
[/quote]The Internal Revenue Service can't bring claims against you, your family... (view)
Mon 8 Jun, 2026 07:31 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
[img width=500]https://i.ibb.co/67frCSqR/1000005899.jpg[/img]
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[size=200][b]I looked it up! I looked it up!
"B" is the correct... (view)
Wed 3 Jun, 2026 02:23 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
[size=85]CNN News Alert:[/size]
[size=150]Justice Department is not moving forward on the 'anti-weaponization' fund, Blanche says[/size]
Acting... (view)
Sat 30 May, 2026 12:32 pm - An even better quote, and one perhaps more apt, is:
[i][b]Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public[/b].[/i]
It is attributed to H. L. Mencken, but... (view)
Sat 30 May, 2026 12:05 pm - [quote="Region Philbis"]
the blatant hypocrisy is truly nauseating.
even more so that he gets away with it...
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Yup.
This decade will be remembered in history as... (view)