This is Joe's Pond in West Danville, Vermont. It is the largest body of water in Vermont still called a "pond." In the 1940s and 1950s, my dad (died August 2025), my grandfather (died 1982), my grandmother (died 1979), my aunt (died 2013), and my uncle (still among us) used
Have this 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers-signed plaque ("Knot Hole Gang") from my deceased dad. Anyone know people in sports memorabilia, either NYC or wherever, who might be interested in something such as this?
cc: @MLB@Dodgers@mmpadellan
Recent NBC polling highlights a massive ideological gap: "Having children" remains a top success goal for young conservative men, but is dropping fast for women across the political spectrum. It turns out, when one side bears 100% of the biological and early caretaking load....
We wonder why young men and women are talking past each other, but look at where they grew up. A generation of young women was socialized on Instagram—flowery, visual, and left-leaning. Young men grew up on YouTube and gaming—reactive, structural, and right-leaning. Diff. worlds
We spent years rightly breaking down toxic masculinity, but we never gave men a clear, constructive blueprint of what to build in its place. To reverse this polarization, we have to move past online finger-pointing and
Modern dating culture has become grist for the online outrage mill. We take isolated, performative TikToks about "first-date expectations" or the "chopped man epidemic" and treat them as universal truths, giving rise to an active, reactionary culture that builds walls.
It is easy to look at the "Red Pill" or anti-women algorithms and judge them from 35,000 feet. But underneath the online vitriol is usually a cocktail of real human pain: divorces, loneliness, and silent struggles like infertility. The internet just weaponizes that isolation.
The sudden internet obsession with "traditional values" and wives who "obey" isn’t a noble return to the past. For a lot of men, it’s a mask for wanting a servant instead of a partner, fueled by a digital landscape that tells men they are inherently entitled to total control.
The "Gender War" isn't a manufactured moral panic anymore—it’s a tangible cultural reality. Driven by hyper-targeted algorithms, men and women are being fed radically different versions of each other, pushing ideological views and life goals further apart than ever before.
We rarely talk about how deeply men internalize the quiet, painful struggle of infertility. When the conventional "procreator" narrative slips out of reach, it forces a hard look at what being a man actually means. Showing up as a partner matters.
Reducing domestic cooperation to "choreplay"—the idea of trading household chores for intimacy—is incredibly cynical. Marriage isn't an automated transaction where unloading the dishwasher buys you a token. Real partnership is about mutual respect, not keeping a domestic score.
Traditional masculinity metrics are facing a triple threat: automation is shifting what it means to "provide," rising infertility rates are complicating what it means to "procreate," and an anxious world has redefined "protection."
The tax code is fundamentally built to reward capital over labor, a flaw that will only worsen as automation scales. If we want to save the consumer economy, we have to flip the script: give massive tax breaks to companies that actively choose to employ humans at liveable wages.
There is a loud online narrative about men being "destroyed by the court system" and losing their kids. Yet, look closely at weekend custody dynamics, and you often see a different friction: parents who are physically present but psychologically absent, treating custody