In my tubby dad bod days, I remember looking at the diet fads as an observer like I was walking through the state fair with various diet carnival barkers trying to get me to enter their diet tent.  Meat sucks!  Carbs Good!  No Carbs Suck!  Tradition good! ...

I am now firmly part of the keto/intermittent fasting/low carb/anti-sugar tribes (significant overlap between all), but that membership was entirely accidental.  If you would have asked me one year ago today which tribe I was in, I would have replied that it is all...

We watched an awesome movie called The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Charles Dickens’ creation of the Christmas Carol. We all know about Dickens and Christmas Carol, but that title really struck me.  The man who “invented” Christmas?   Um what?  Dickens invented...

You know the scene that I am talking about.  It’s everyone’s favorite scene. After Clarence the angel shows George Bailey what Bedford Falls would have looked like without him, George realizes how much he appreciates everything that he has and euphorically runs...

Here’s the knock on any philosophy or any religion for that matter.   Is it really true?  Does it really explain reality to such an extent that some good will accrue by my embrace of that belief?  And even if that good does accrue, will that good be sustainable over...

I already know what you’re thinking.  Rockne, c’mon man!  Isn’t this just a little rhetorical excess just to get click bait on your blog, a form of rhetorical sugar to induce people to read and induce a temporary high by clicking?   Are you really saying that eating...

  There is a great battle of ideas going on right now on the diet wars. Questions abound.  Carbs good? Carbs bad? Fat good? Fat bad? If good, which type good? Fasting good? Fasting bad?  Bread good?  Bread bad? Worst yet, these battles are happening amidst...

Given the minute numbers who actually read yesterday’s post, it appears the world is not exactly waiting with gleeful anticipation for the musical about the life, times, and pathos of the great mathematician Karl Schwarzschild. Well, people, Schwarzschild may not blow...

I remember when I first read about the Hamilton musical in the New Yorker. It described a young playwright/composer Lin Miranda, who thought that Alexander Hamilton reminded him of Miranda of Tupac Shakur, the West Coast rapper who was shot to death in 1996. He...

  We all know these people: Michael Jordan, John Lennon, Chris Rock, Dolly Parton, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela.  These are people that are in the top of their fields.  They are the best of the best.  Not only have they achieved great things that you and I can’t...