Diet Coke is a great human achievement
Delicious 100% of the time in canned/bottled form (but also customizable with fountain machines), produced and distributed at an unimaginable scale, probably OK for you, no animal-derived ingredients, loved across political + other lines
Dear athletic directors, believe it or not we enjoy home and homes a trillion times more than neutral sites. For the love of God and the game, quit fucking this up.
Ben Sasse is uniquely extraordinary…but if you watch that interview and wish we had more civically serious leaders like him, please understand that’s a choice. Voters can demand it.
NEW: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman reflects on being MOVED to tears by the Christian cross after returning to Earth from the historic expedition:
"When I got back on the on the ship — I'm not really a religious person — but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything."
"So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute, and when that man walked in, I'd never met him before in my life. But I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears."
"It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through."
Being in your early 40s is weird, man. People around your age are in every stage of life. You have people who are grandparents. You have people who have newborns. You have people dating 25-year-olds. You have people celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Some of them look 60, and some of them look 30. All the bases are covered when you are in your early 40s.
This whole NASA Artemis II mission to the moon thingy got me thinking deeply about God.
If it weren't for His creation, science wouldn't exist. Because technically, science is just a study of what God created.
You just can't take our God out of the equation.
@GoodyearAZGov Tough crowd here in the comments! But they have a point. To whom much is given, much is expected. Goodyear has been given the opportunity for tremendous growth, but we expect that to be handled responsibly and with a long-term focus. The jury is out on that last part.
What a privilege to be tired from work you once begged the universe for. what a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. what a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. What a privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.
@GabrielJClark We adopted two kids from foster care, and I occasionally find myself reminded of the awesome blessing — and the awesome responsibility — I now have as their father to help their life be so different from how it began. May they be successful, thoughtful and love-filled like you.
Something that I feel fairly comfortable saying that I wouldn’t have said this time a week ago: I think Oklahoma State will win at least one more game in 2025.
@okstatepres The Loyal and True part of me wants — desperately — to trust this decision, and you. But you lack credibility. Positional trust: minimal. Relational trust: close to zero. That’s on you, and the Regents. Weak organizational leadership. I’m done writing checks for a while.
Something you learn in middle age:
There is no huge, secret group of super-smart, highly competent people running the organizations that make up our society.
For better or worse, it's mostly the same people you went to high school with, all grown up.