On August 22, 2021, Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers became the 28th player in MLB history to record 500 career home runs. Twenty-eight - out of tens of thousands to have played in the MLB. And when the season began, he had an historic opportunity to also reach the career milestone of 3,000 hits…it was a big task, …

Twenty years later, it’s a near certainty that we are all within 6 degrees of separation from one of the 2,977 Americans who tragically lost their lives this day. We have met perhaps a cousin of someone lost who now works in our company, a church member’s granddaughter who never met her grandfather, someone’s …

The Cost of Freedom Freedom isn’t free. As Americans, that’s a well-understood concept. Our freedoms come at a cost - we have to work for it, fight for it and, yes, sometimes some have died to preserve those freedoms for their countrymen, for their posterity. But I think we fail, especially of late, to appreciate the …

The Top 10 Strikeout Leaders The April 2021 MLB Season is in the rearview, and the league leaders in strikeouts are as follows1: Bieber, Shane (68) Cole, Gerrit (62) deGrom, Jacob (59) Glasnow, Tyler (56) Bauer, Trevor (51) Darvish, Yu (49) Burnes, Corbin (49) Peralta, Freddy (45) Wheeler, Zack (41) …

I think the idea of “Free Will” gets complicated by the existence of a Divinely-derived morality. Because it often reduces to a binary question that is largely based on the opinion of the deity that inspired said morality. Is this good, or is this bad, to the deity? I don’t doubt that there may be a God that defines a …

Variety is the spice of life…sort of The taxonomic1 class of Mammalia is composed of about 6,500 distinct species. From lightning quick as a cheetah to slow as a sloth, tiny to literally elephantine, and even dwelling in the oceans - no matter what or where, each species carries their young to term (monotremes …

Finally got my first prick yesterday...at the moment, really just feels like I was punched in the arm by a small child. I am unabashedly one of those people who was visibly elated by the chance to get this modern medical marvel. While I've always been one to believe that you discount the power of prayer at your own …

Four-of-a-kind won’t cut it We have six presidents. When Joseph Biden took the Oath of Office on January 20, 2021, the United States officially had one current president, and five living former presidents (Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter). But having so many living presidents …

It’s been twenty years, but could it really be true this time? It’s been a literal score since this war began, and there are now some fighting in it who weren’t alive when it did. It will have scarred two generations by the time it is finally over. And that day might actually be within reach. Of course, as with any …

Does it Quack? On the day of Super Bowl LV before the game got under way, I noted this about Tom Brady. This was, admittedly, based on not much more than a gut feeling I got about his performance over his career, as well as my perceptions of him throughout his time in the NFL. But I needed to know - exactly how good …