Category: Commentary
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Impressive Baseball Stats (or Not)
Now that the baseball season is in full swing, allow me to quote a couple of “impressive” achievements from early in 2025. According to Underdog Fantasy’s Justin Havens, Tatis is the seventh player in the Wild Card era to record at least four home runs, six stolen bases, nine RBIs and 13 runs in his…
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Shakespeare Is Not Dead, But Alive, For He has Risen
No blasphemy intended by the title, just borrowing a phrase. Allow me to share just a small sample of a single contemporary work set in America’s 1920s to make my point. Let me describe some scenes, so you can tell me what this work is all about. A young woman is a waitress on a…
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WonderCon 2025
This is my 3rd year attending WonderCon, for me the first Con of the season at the end of March, and somehow it just wasn’t as much fun this year. Not necessarily the Con’s fault, but that of my own attitude. One remarkable thing about this year’s Con was the simultaneous presence in the hotel…
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Wanted: The Hollywood Guide to New York City
I know this will come as a shock to the denizens of New York City and even nearby New Jersey, but 90% of the country has no idea how you live or even where you live. Yes, we all have vague ideas about New York City being a big port on the Northeast Coast, and…
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Hubris by Proxy
I’ve finally settled on a term for those who feel the need to hector others into “saving the planet”. We can’t save the planet. We can’t destroy the planet. The dinosaurs got wiped out due to a giant meteor strike. Did the planet care? Not a whit. The planet went on its merry way. “Matter…
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War or Diplomacy: Language Matters
I speak and write only one language fluently. I know about a hundred words of Spanish and can pronounce it flawlessly. I can read German with the occasional help of a dictionary and speak it perfectly but never learned to converse in it fluently having never mastered using my limited vocabulary to convey what I…
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The Russians are Stealing the North Pole!
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geologic Survey have reported on the latest position of the magnetic north pole, and it’s quite disturbing. See News Now (SNN) anchor Ami Gonnacry, interviewed esteemed scientist August Peabody. Gonnacry: “Dr. Peabody could you give us some background on this latest threat to life…
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Trolling Considered Harmful (and Stupid)
I posted this on LinkedIn, to point out that certain people seem to think that any hand gesture is some kind of crypto Nazi sign of solidarity, which makes no sense. A fellow LinkedIn member came across it and reposted it to mock my take, and it has attracted over 16,000 views and 67 comments…
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Do You Expect Me to Fly? No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to DEI.
When we were confronted with 2 plane crashes near airports in the last week, The Media That Be (TMTB) howled that Trump was going to get us all killed because there is a shortage of Air Traffic Controllers. Trump in his usual attack, then counter-attack mode blamed DEI policies for lowering the standards, recruiting obviously…
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Jesus Was a Refugee
Upstart Catholic convert J. D. Vance aroused the righteous indignation of a prominent Jesuit priest by the Vice President’s claims that deporting immigrants was sanctioned by their shared religion. The priest responded by noting that Jesus was once a refugee in Egypt, and so all Christians should treat immigrants with dignity. For those unfamiliar with…
Musings of a Restless Mind 