Dr. ESP The past 24 hours have been one of those synchronistic moments that only make sense when you make the connection between seemingly unrelated events. The events: I received an email from a friend seeking advice about the future of the non-profit organization she co-founded 15 years ago. I sent an email to another friend explaining … Read more
Blogger’s Note: I started drafting this post in mid-December while making my list of Festivus grievances. But, as often happens, the narrative did not come together and the partially completed entry was relegated to the “drafts” folder. However, my desire to share the content was energized by two recent events. Last Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine … Read more
While browsing the titles in the “New Releases” section of my local bookstore, I came upon The Newest Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin. Certainly, these most vocal critics of “cancel culture” would not exploit a Mark Twain classic to further their faux crusade against anything that makes conservative snowflakes uncomfortable. … Read more
What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chiguhr/No country for old men Yesterday, for the Buffalo Bills, it was a chance to get to the pinnacle of professional football, Super Bowl LVI. And, if an overnight poll is accurate, I, like 80 percent of Americans, felt cheated and was ready to … Read more
The skeptical school essentially thinks this whole situation might be a huge bluff: The Russians have deliberately set out to ‘scare the Americans,’ in order to create pressure on Ukraine to change its constitution as the Russians would like, or to put Putin at the center of international attention, or to reestablish a Russian sphere … Read more