The other day I expressed dismay that NYT writer John McWhorter produced a piece heartily endorsing land acknowledgments (“LA ...

Although John McWhorter may have been taken on board the New York Times as a reliably “heterodox” columnist (remember his bestselling critique of wokeism Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed ...

Welcome to Friday, October 23, 2026, with November coming on fast. And it’s National Mole Day, celebrating not the animal but the unit of measurement. Note that the holiday is time-specific, spanning ...

Since I had my first disastrous cataract operation on Sept. 22 (not the doctor’s fault!), I haven’t been able to read a book on paper. I can read the computer if I close my right eye because the right ...

As I’ve mentioned, posting will be light for a week or so as I have to deal with eye issues. Today I go to the retinologist and have little time to post, but as I was perusing my list of favorite ...

All the ducks have gone, and the sky is gray. (People keep asking me, “Where do you think the ducks are?” My answer is, “My best guess is that they’ve gone south for the winter.”) But the squirrels ...