Last month, M. Gessen won the Pulitzer for Opinion and I was steamed. Yet again I had lost to an entity pushing an agenda instead of someone who had "outwritten" me. But deep down, I'm really insecure. Even though my best 7 articles were better that Gessen's, maybe, just maybe, they are a great writer and I just suck. So I went on over to Muck Rack to read some of their articles AFTER their last Pulitzer winning piece on November 7, 2025: The Ruling About Passports Isn't Abou

Over at the Daily Mail, they declared New Ulm, Minnesota the "Least Diverse City in the US." New Ulm? I've actually been to New Ulm, it's remarkably unremarkable. I used to live in Mankato and went to South Dakota once. New Ulm was the last (small) city before you saw a bunch of nothing. New Ulm was bland as (White) bread. Follow the YELLOW Arrow But I find it hard to believe it is the "Least Diverse City in America." According to the Daily Mail, New Ulm is, shockingly, "93%

When I go to bed at night, I do not worry if someone will try to bomb my house in the morning. I have American Worries, living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Worries like if things are too expensive or if my kids will have opportunities for good jobs. I do worry a little about safety, being outside Cleveland, instead of a nice metroplex like Madison, Wisconsin or Boise, Idaho, but not too much. Why? Many of the areas' criminals are related to my in-laws. Editor's Note: Mo

This is about freeing your mind.... The Fermi Paradox posits that if the universe is loaded with aliens, why don't we see them? I explained, in 2019, "about a hundred years ago, radio station KDKA started broadcasting commercially to Americans, so lets use the number 100 as a nice, round base number. Let's say that evolution is true and the whole universe started 13-14 billion years ago. Since traveling by light years is like traveling back in time, those radio bursts above a