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We Can Choose
On Martin Luther King Jr.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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We Fell For It
Nothing hardens the tribe like disdain
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January 14, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Grace
And Time
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January 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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First Reports Are Always Wrong
Like many of you, I clicked on the news just now.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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I Resolve
Every New Year, I return to: This Is Water.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Not Losing
Is Winning
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December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Myth
And Fatherhood
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December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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First Principles
When you learn to scuba dive, one of the first drills is this: your instructor knocks the regulator out of your mouth.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Friction
I did almost all of my Christmas shopping this year through Instagram ads.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Don't Lose Sight
That there is truth and good, and you must live it
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December 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Choices
There is something uniquely cruel about dying in a place built for becoming.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Flaubert's Parrot
In America
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December 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition
I don’t usually write fundraising posts and have always hated, hated, asking for money for the organizations I have founded and supported.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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All Politics Is Local
I work in the emergency department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and the other day, when I was on shift, our saintlike social worker told me “I’ve been here since 1997, and this is the ...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Let's Get Real For a Moment
Doctors are trained to think in probabilities.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Thoughts on Navy SEALs
There’s this thing I remember from around the time I had just “gotten my bird”, the colloquial term we used in the SEAL Teams to describe being “warfare qualified,” aka a SEAL, aka a lifetime pass to ...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Little Boy Is Big Tough Man
There’s a mistake boys make, especially boys who were never truly tested, that Pete Hegseth epitomizes: the belief that toughness is the same thing as cruelty.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I cannot stand this Peyton and Eli MNF thing
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Legacies
I’ve seen this movie before.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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It's 5:45 on Thanksgiving and I'm a large Old Fashioned, a 5 mg edible, and an IPA deep into pumpkin pie squares with apple crisp up next.

What's the earliest acceptable time to go to bed on Thanksgiving?
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Green On Blue
Afghanistan, the war anyway, entered “green-on-blue” into the lexicon.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Habits
By any measure, I’m not a nostalgic person.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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He Ain't Shit
There’s a moment in the history of real courage—actual, physical and moral courage fused so tightly they become indistinguishable—that deserves to be held up every time Americans start to doubt the po...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Trump took the bait in a hilariously death-threat kind of way, huh?
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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So ummmm, another word for this is "dying."
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM