Not what I want. A misery inflicted upon me by clumsiness and a neglectful medical system!

I complain about crutches a lot, and they suck. But... A year ago I was BMI obese. I've been losing weight and was back in the BMI overweight range (my normal range). Today I looked in the mirror. I have the start of a "six pack." Turns out I just needed to work out 16 hours a day for 5 weeks.🤷‍♂️

Climate change is an existential threat to the nation but has not yet been securitized in the way it needs to be. It may be time for an air lift. We stanched the bleeding of a genocide when the Yazidis were driven into the mountains by ISIS. It can be done again.

Everyone says “oh BlueSky is great because there is no algorithm” but my feed is nothing but cat pictures. Do you think I chose this life?! Is that the implication here?! Am I a man, so distraught by the machinations of his own species that he takes refuge in pictures(!) of a superior life form?

Gives a whole new perspective to that push a few years back to create robot police dogs.

It’s not every Sunday night that I sit on my back deck with my crutches and enjoy a cigar and bourbon, but there are worse ways to cap the first weekend of Fall.

Also having done polling for a newspaper...the breathless stories about subgroups fill column inches and make the math work on paying for the poll in the first place.

Part of this is a credibility signal. In 2012? there was a mid tier polling firm that was just making it up. They would take Gallop's latest numbers and make it 1.5% more GOP. They didn't publish the cross tabs, which was the first clue that something was off.

It's my favorite time of year: annual evaluation time. This is where I unload in passive aggressive prose all of my beef. The dean will read about all of it. Every petty fight. Every quasi-heroic thing I did that no one noticed. 3,000+ words of midwestern comedic under-statement.

There was a line in the old order of mass "look not on our sins, but on the faith of your Church" That crystalized my entire faith as a Catholic and has shaped how I approach org behavior and leadership. The church dropped the line, I dropped my faith, but the idea is still sound.