May 13, 2026
The world cup starts in less than a month and to be honest, the only match I care about is the one between FIFA and the great state of NJ. I love watching the NWSL and the USWNT but, like most Americans, I don't care one bit about
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May 12, 2026
I have never taken this quote by Albert Camus literally. I have always interpreted it as an allegory for things like the genocide in Gaza. I took it to imply that we always should align ourselves with the victims and never find justifications for supporting a government that is killing
May 11, 2026
Every day we are subjected to oscillating reports about peace deals and renewed fighting. Reports that the Strait will be opening followed by reports that it remains closed. News that oil prices are rising and moments later that they are cratering. On the surface this looks like pure chaos and
May 10, 2026
Today's post is for all the mothers who had to raise their children without the help of a partner. It is from Isabel Allende who wrote, "fathers come and go and often disappear for good, never to see their children again. Mothers, on the other hand, are
May 9, 2026
I would love to be decked out in red, white, and blue. I wish I could be going to Philly on these beautiful weekends to celebrate America's 250th. But instead, "I've got the decline of American civilization and the guilt and ineptitude of the whole
May 8, 2026
The ink isn't even dry on the awful Supreme Court decision that overturned parts of the voting rights act, and now Tennessee has disenfranchised black voters in Memphis. We all need to channel our inner Meridian, a character created by Alice Walker. When she saw injustices rooted in
May 7, 2026
My congratulations go out to Dr. Ko Arimatsu from National Astronomical Observatory of Japan for finding an atmosphere around one of the Kuiper Belt objects that scientists thought was much too small to have such an atmosphere. Mark Twain tells us that a discovery like this is the greatest pleasure
May 6, 2026
Today's death of Ted Turner makes me want to highlight how divorce, when done right, can be a positive experience for those involved. Sometimes a married couple just grow apart and the individual people involved just need to go their separate ways to achieve new goals that have
May 5, 2026
I am firmly on team Einstein when it comes to the purpose of education. Going to college is not about learning the skills that will make you useful to the ambitions of Mark Fuckerberg or Elmo Musk, but instead it is about helping you develop "a sense of responsibility
May 4, 2026
In the 1920s Hermann Hesse watched as world leaders "strain every nerve, and with success, to get the next war going". At the same time much of the population goes on with their lives as if it is business as usual, they "dance the fox trot, earn
May 3, 2026
Timothy Snyder reminds us that "Freedom requires a positive presence, not a malign neglect". So on this World Press Freedom Day we need to remind ourselves of the actions that we can take to help preserve the free press rather than let it die of malign neglect. Subscribe
May 2, 2026
This sounds wonderful for the people of New Mexico. How can New Jersey piss him off enough that we to get banned too? Today's quote of the day talks about the disconnect between a person's real life and the myth that they culture about their life