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 19 Sep, 2026 05:29 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
[quote]I have a picture[/quote] if you'd like, i'll PM you my email address.
you can then mail the image and i'll post it...
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Yeah,... (view)
Thu 17 Sep, 2026 08:27 am - [quote="hightor"]
You know, I'm sort of sorry I completely missed out on the heyday of A2K when I actually used to go to NYC annually and sometimes even traveled to other... (view)
Wed 16 Sep, 2026 12:27 pm - ...for those of you who have been here a long time, thought you'd like to know that Nancy and I met for an annual lunch with Jonathan on the Pan on Monday.
Great, great day. He was looking... (view)
Tue 8 Sep, 2026 08:42 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
Trump posted a map on Truth Social without explanation, showing the US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico and the Caribbean coloured in with the US flag, with... (view)
Fri 4 Sep, 2026 11:59 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
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A rather gentle way of saying that everything that Trump touches turns to shit.
Midas had... (view)
Thu 3 Sep, 2026 04:55 am - [quote="FredBquick"]
Sure. I don't dispute it if you don't believe in God. No doubt you think you can give convincing reasons. God will know that and everything else, nothing... (view)
Wed 26 Aug, 2026 03:46 am - I also was wondering about the fact that Chat did not ask me about my comment, "... (I have several ideas of instances of such “greater good”)… ."
Instead, it... (view)
Wed 26 Aug, 2026 03:43 am - I've thought of using other AI with the same question. I think I am afraid that I might discover than AI's manage to communicate with each other...and we humans do not know this yet.
I... (view)
Tue 25 Aug, 2026 10:12 am - I had an interesting “conversation” with AI (ChatGPT) this morning. It is very long, but I hope some of you read it and enjoy it.
[b]Me: [/b]First the predicate for my question: Many... (view)