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.
Mon 18 Mar, 2024 03:23 am - [quote="coluber2001"]
First off, remember that the Republican party is in the process of a pogram, a purging, or at least, a silencing of conservatives and moderates, so don't go... (view)
Sat 16 Mar, 2024 08:19 am - [quote="blatham"]
I'm definitely not hopeless about the election, Frank, but I certainly am more worried than I've ever been about the consequences if Trump was to win... (view)
Sat 16 Mar, 2024 04:24 am - [quote="blatham"]
[quote]There is no cavalry coming. No miracle solution. No saviors.
In the end, we, the American people - not any of our institutions - have to save our democracy... (view)
Mon 11 Mar, 2024 04:25 am - [quote="georgeob1"]
Hi Frank. Thanks for the kind words. Very good to hear from you as well. A few takeaways from all this.
1. It isn't necessary to agree on every issue with... (view)
Sun 10 Mar, 2024 06:04 am - [quote="georgeob1"] I fully agree. As a person Trump has many disagreeable qualities. (I probably wouldn't take him as a guest at the Bohemian Club.) However in comparison to the... (view)
Fri 8 Mar, 2024 01:01 pm - [quote="blatham"]
This image was posted to twitter by Katie Britt. Now, imagine if you'd tasked an AI program to create a visual image of plastic humans in a totally sterile... (view)
Mon 4 Mar, 2024 11:12 am - [quote="Bogulum"]
On December 9, 2000, the SCOTUS received a request from the Bush campaign to halt the Florida recount. They granted that request the same day. Two days later (Dec... (view)
Fri 1 Mar, 2024 08:34 am - [quote="hightor"]
[quote]WHAT is your point with addressing this to me?[/quote]
Um...I don't understand your reaction; it seems almost defensive.
[quote="you"]I have not... (view)
Fri 1 Mar, 2024 06:13 am - [quote="hightor"]
There are GOP politicians who simply fear being "primaried" and losing their seat if they don't go along with the MAGA program.[/quote]
Goddam right... (view)
Thu 29 Feb, 2024 09:30 am - [quote="blatham"]
[quote]“This is a momentous decision, just to hear this case,” conservative judge Michael Luttig told Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC. “There was no reason... (view)