Odds and Ends
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My goodness, we are a complex and peculiar species, and I have lived nary a day without contributing to our complexities and peculiarities; I am a living breathing manifestation of all that’s wondrous and weird—a shiny thread in a quilt of ever-expanding madness, enriched by every encounter that has accounted for my miserly endowment of
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Fate? Destiny? Who doesn’t enjoy grappling with issues and questions sure to induce a sneer from Richard Dawkins and a grin from Jordan Peterson? Once when asked, “Do you believe there is a God?” Jordan Peterson replied, “I live as though I do.” It was the perfect answer. Destiny, spirituality, and the deific: they tend
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Once upon a time, the stars aligned; thus, a phenomenon of empirical cosmology handed me a key, a rare treasure that unlocked a universe within a universe. Inside this realm of unparalleled idyll, I was given free rein to explore. And thus, from the deepest of depths to dizzying heights, I traversed every quadrant; the
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Patriotism? Mmm. It’s a term that has morphed, jumped the rails. Nowadays, some conflate it with, or have rebranded it “White nationalism.” A “white nationalist” is presumed male or, more specifically, a heterosexual male. In the West, white, heterosexual, and male have become an unfortunate trifecta; keeping to America, it’s become the 21st-century’s version of
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For years, friends, family, and associates used the term “a warehouse of useless information” to describe me. I would have preferred tall, dark, and handsome but we can’t always get our way. Anyway, the term was not as unflattering as it might suggest but instead was a moniker acknowledging that information sticks to me like
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Winning streaks, sunny days, my wife agreeing with me, not hitting a bridge opening en route to work, my son both recognizing and concurring with my logic, my Maltese unfailingly depositing his bodily secretions onto the wee-wee mat, my market holdings trending upward: The abovementioned mark matters I would appreciate marching along in a procession
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Many moons ago a woman, on a whim, walked into a room. Our gazes met and we both took off, hands locked, spiraling through the universe. Our first date was chockful of inspired gazes, and laughter from utterances genuinely humorous. Our connection was palpable, our revelations copious. The night ended with her hugging me and
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Twenty-four years ago, President George W Bush stood on a massive pile of rubble once a spire that pierced the clouds and echoed the decisive words, “And those responsible for this are gonna hear from all of us!” And thus, Americans became rapacious concerning their endorsement of revenge; overnight, astonishment morphed into rage; we wanted
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The most widely attended sporting event of the 19th century was a baseball game played between a New York regiment, and one comprised of multiple regiments. The contest took place in Hilton Head. It was estimated that 40 thousand people had gathered to spectate. Along with items concerning the Civil War, Harper’s Weekly began reporting
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I am a fan of the Glenn Show. Glenn Loury is an economist who teaches at Brown University. Professor Loury is also a public intellectual. On his podcast, he has a bi-weekly conversation with John McWhorter that uploads on YouTube every other Friday. It is always enlightening. Their last conversation I feel compelled to share.
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