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The Court
The Court With good reason, the decisions, conduct and term of the Supreme Court have come into sharp focus for most Americans over the...
Doug Weiss
Jul 9, 20236 min read
Disorder
I am not the only person who will tell you that their car drives faster and better after it has just been washed. It’s alchemy, I swear....
Doug Weiss
Jul 2, 20234 min read
A Good Book
I have a confession to make. I am a literary omnivore, so much so that on any given week I typically have three or more books, fiction or...
Doug Weiss
Jun 25, 20233 min read
Good Intentions
We’ve all heard the aphorism that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, a cautionary reminder that the law of unintended...
Doug Weiss
Jun 18, 20233 min read
Comfort Food
The other evening, I asked a handful of friends what their comfort foods were. It is a wonderful icebreaker question that never fails to...
Doug Weiss
Jun 11, 20233 min read
Engagement
Recently, we watched an original series based on the best-selling book, Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music. Don’t let...
Doug Weiss
Jun 4, 20234 min read
Under the Blanket
The other morning sleep stalked me well past my usual rising. It was one of those under the blanket days—when I simply could not muster...
Doug Weiss
May 28, 20233 min read
Bonsai
A leisurely walk through our botanical gardens today took us down a path lined with specimens of Bonsai eventually leading us in a...
Doug Weiss
May 21, 20232 min read
Stolen Fruit
I am of the age –or will be shortly that a friend waggishly described as entering the final quarter. Whether I make it or not through the...
Doug Weiss
May 14, 20233 min read
Humans
In a recent post I offered up a perspective on the subject of artificial intelligence—or at least the kind of AI that has been making...
Doug Weiss
May 7, 20233 min read
Awakened
Etymology has long been an interest, admittedly as a consequence of learning in my early teens that J.R.R Tolkien was a professor of...
Doug Weiss
Apr 30, 20233 min read
The Loyal Opposition
Observing the current state of impasse at which our two-party system has arrived, it is instructive to remind ourselves how we got to...
Doug Weiss
Apr 23, 20233 min read
The Past
You’ve probably heard the expression, “the past is prologue to the future,” suggesting that events and experiences of the past inform...
Doug Weiss
Apr 16, 20233 min read
Ozymandias
I suspect most of us read Shelley’s Ozymandias at some point in High School or perhaps later in college. It is a favorite of English...
Doug Weiss
Apr 9, 20232 min read
History
No doubt you are familiar with the quote from George Santayana, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It is...
Doug Weiss
Apr 2, 20233 min read
Silence
I’ve written before of the solitude one can experience in the deep forest or at the top of a mountain, both places I’ve been drawn to...
Doug Weiss
Mar 26, 20232 min read
Spring
Although the official start of Spring is still weeks away, the shift to Daylight Savings Time always heralds the change of seasons for me....
Doug Weiss
Mar 19, 20233 min read
Artificial Intelligence
Scientist and science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote “any reasonably advanced technology is indistinguishable from...
Doug Weiss
Mar 12, 20236 min read
On Being
I recently finished two novels written by one of my favorite authors, Cormac McCarthy. The Passenger and its follow-on, Stella Maris are...
Doug Weiss
Mar 5, 20233 min read
Myths
Browsing a frequently visited site the other day I ran across a quote that inspired this post. “Any large-scale human cooperation-whether...
Doug Weiss
Feb 26, 20234 min read
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