A collection of miscellaneous weekly blog posts below!
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I had an experience recently. I had planned to encrypt it in a fictional narrative, but then thought: Oh, hell, why not come clean. Despite my age, I do not have a list with checkmarks next to its items. The concept of a bucket list is idiotic. Bucket lists tend to contain nonsense that the…
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“Who is John Galt?” That was the repeatedly asked question in Ayn Rand’s epic, Atlas Shrugged. Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged to resolve some of the lingering issues raised in The Fountainhead. Were Ms. Rand alive to write the epic novel today, she might have opted for the title Atlas Sagged, or Slumpled, or perhaps Shit…
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I’ve noticed a new theme afoot in Philadelphia. Littering! Although it’s not novel. Instead, it feels like a reprise of an old nationwide epidemic in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Back then, America was in the throes of her Vietnam initiative, and sinking national pride had become a contagion. When people don’t take pride…
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Arsène Lupin, the fictional gentleman thief created by Maurice Leblanc in 1905 and played by Omar Sy in a Netflix series, has got nothing on Kenneth Moore. It’s undeniable; Lupin is masterful, but he requires intricate schemes and elaborate disguises to pull off his nefarious deeds. Not Kenneth Moore. He seldom, if ever, changes appearance.…
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Not yesterday, but Sunday a week ago, Kathy and I strolled Main Street in Lake Placid, New York. As we dipped in and out of stores and took time for a light lunch, a good portion of our attention was devoted to what was taking place on my phone. As T-Mobile subscribers, we have the…
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The people who oppose immigration are just being plain mean. But as Howard Beal, a mad prophet of the airwaves, once asked, “What does that have to do with the price of rice?” Over the past few years, Kathy and I watched as some of our empty-nest friends, although reluctantly, allowed their adult children to…
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When, as a much younger man—I was still in high school—I was watching Firing Line, hosted by Willian F. Buckley. The show was a venue for debate and discussion. It was years before the internet and decades before podcasts, venues that provide plenty of room for pseudo-intellectuals. If you were a guest on Firing Line,…
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Beginning in 2023, Jordan Peterson organized a conference he called ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship). It’s a multi-day conference featuring many speakers touching on many topics worth paying attention to. The conference takes me a week-plus to fully devour on YouTube. The 2026 iteration of ARC featured some speakers who helped Jordan Peterson launch the…
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I played the guitar as a young man. I had reached a point where I could pick and strum like someone capable of mastering the instrument. By age ten, my teacher, Vito Spioto, had me playing Paganini Caprices, although they were abridged versions. Anyway, I had discovered a fondness for classical music, and when I…
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I don’t know what I could add to the banter, but I’d wanna be there to hear it. On second thought, I could explain why I’d be an asset to the Enterprise and end up an interstellar traveler. Notice Mr. Spock isn’t holding a mug of beer. Perhaps he doesn’t see any logic in consuming…
