Thursday was surgery day. For once, it did not get bumped or delayed or rescheduled. My wife finally had the surgery she has desperately needed for more than three years. Read more

When someone uses the phrase "identity politics" unironically, they're saying "I don't need to listen to other people's stories." Oh, and TIL that Michael Keaton used to work for Mr. Rogers. Read more

"When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them," Merton said. "And that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it." Read more

"He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor." Read more

I can't decide at this point which would be worse: To allow your daughter to read this book, or to allow your son to. Read more

Life is complicated. The Fourteenth Amendment is not. Read more

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. Read more

Wherein I learn about a made-up word that became a real word for made-up words and we all get to see some books that don't exist. Read more

Shamelessness is not a superpower, it only puts off the inevitable. Read more