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 6 Nov, 2026 03:44 pm - [quote="izzythepush"]
It's a bit of a shock.
I always thought those going through dementia/altzheimers were confused, that was until my late wife was dying from cancer.
She... (view)
Fri 6 Nov, 2026 06:28 am - [quote="izzythepush"]
[quote="Frank Apisa"].rather than that silly, puny lie he is trying to peddle.
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I think he believes it. He's that delusional.
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Thu 5 Nov, 2026 08:06 am - [quote]The historic nature of this election cannot be overstated. It is a rejection of Trump, who insisted voters should imagine he was on the ballot.
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President Trump posted on... (view)
Fri 30 Oct, 2026 07:42 am - In my opinion, just about anything done by anyone with an aim to ridding our country of this MAGA bullshit is morally justified...and goddam near anything done by anyone to help keep the MAGA... (view)
Wed 28 Oct, 2026 05:54 am - [quote]
I will accept you do not know, but I suspect you have excuses. [/quote]
I have no idea of what you mean by that, Fred.
I DO NOT KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY GODS. PERIOD.
I suspect it is... (view)
Fri 23 Oct, 2026 10:51 am - [quote="Region Philbis"]
this will get you started --
https://able2know.org/forum/politics/
https://able2know.org/forum/history/
https://able2know.org/forum/sociology/
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Wed 21 Oct, 2026 02:33 am - [quote="FredBquick"]
Consider, life could not exist if the constants of nature such as the electron charge or the gravitational constant had been even slightly different. These physical... (view)
Fri 16 Oct, 2026 05:07 am - [quote="Walter Hinteler"]
Trump’s poll ratings are dismal, with the mid-term elections just over two weeks away.
He is now trying to make the Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a... (view)