A hundred years before Sinatra sang "New York, New York", Mark Twain said, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" but in slightly different words. Today, I would like to congratulate the Brunson family for all the success they have achieved in
I want to take a moment today to thank Mike DeWine for calling on Ohio to abolish the death penalty. He wants to reverse a policy he helped create in the early 1980s. It is great to see a politician willing to reverse themself on an important issue based on
This weekend the San Francisco Giants had a Pride Night Game in which the players wore an alternate hat where the team logo was done in multiple different colors. The bottom part had the visible colors of the electromagnetic spectrum. Three of the players felt the need to find a
We all should be fuming. The taxpayers have to put up all the money for these events and FIFA walks away with all the profits. Over 30 years ago Eduardo Galeano described it perfectly, saying that "the profits generated by these tournaments have multiplied so prodigiously that the Biblical
Watching people flock to this spectacle makes me think of this James Baldwin quote. I have to feel pity for these people that are taken in by these distractions. I have to pity then in order not to despise them. And that is not the happiest way to feel toward
John Steinbeck tells us that system we live under is rotten to the core. The system is designed to reward those traits we detest, like greed, meanness, and egotism. At the same time kindness, generosity, and honesty are more likely to lead to failure. Never has this been more evident
America 250: 250 years ago Thomas Paine told us he looked forward to America becoming "a sanctuary to the persecuted...when home should afford neither friendship or safety". Over the next month, as those around you are celebrating the amazingness of America, know in your heart how miserably
George Orwell expressed doubt about whether people were capable of learning from disaster preparedness drills. He tells us that he witnessed first hand people in London mistaking the All-Clear signal for the Air-Raid Alarm after almost a year of practice, including living through real air raids. With this
In today's quote of the day, Nassim Taleb is trying to drive home the point that too often we write as experts on things we really don't have direct experience with. So in that vein, instead of reading my words on how Mamdani's Clinic
We read today that international conflict is at its highest level since WWII. This is not surprising with the go it alone attitude of some of the major countries around the world. I get that international organizations and alliances might require a lot of effort and involve compromises to the
The next few months are going to be seeing a large spike in the number of visitors to Philadelphia for the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the games of the Soccer World Cup, and the MLB All-Star Game. In 1873, Mark Twain's
In 1918, W.E.B DuBois wrote that "great and civilized nations were making desperate endeavors to confine the development of ability and individuality to one sex". He couldn't understand why anyone would want to sideline the talents, abilities, and potential contributions of half of the