People don’t talk about America the way I do very much anymore. The smart pessimists call me naïve. They tell me I ignore the truths about our past. Or that I’m the […]
The Obligation of Hope
Promises to Keep
There was a bookshelf in the house I grew up in that never changed. It was like the ruins of an ancient civilization left behind for those after the fall to decipher. […]
Gratitude for 2020
Cowen’s First Law, as stated by Economist Tyler Cowen says the following: “There is something wrong with everything (by which I mean there are few decisive or knockdown articles or arguments, […]
The Expanse
Chauvet Cave, in Southern France, has paintings on its stone walls that are 32,000 years old. They were preserved when the cave collapsed and was sealed from the elements 20,000 years ago. […]
Swing Away
Baseball, the game, has never been enough. It’s slow. It crawls along at a pace that’s never been able to keep anyone’s attention. When we go to the ballpark, we go with […]
On the Utility of Faith
For those of you who don’t follow the majesty that is @sphughes99 on Twitter…this sort of stuff pops out from time to time… Thread on the utility of faith. Most of the […]
To the Moon
Second only to the Gettysburg address for me…one of the great of American Speeches given September 12, 1962 at Rice Stadium in Houston Texas by President John F. Kennedy. Enjoy…50 years to […]
On America
For every charge over Omaha Beach, there’s a My Lei. For every Apollo 11, there’s a Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. All our heroes have the same problem heroes always have. They’re people. And […]
Winter is Over…
I didn’t start Watching Game of Thrones until it had reached its sixth season. Like many outsiders, I’d grown tired of all the cryptic tweets and Facebook posts and for years had […]
Baseball
When I was twelve years old, I pitched a one hit, sixteen strike-out game against my team’s Little League rival in the playoffs. I stole home on a delayed steal without a […]