Mindful Gentlemen

08/30/2026

"Well done is better than well said." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Well done is better than well said." ~ Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

04/11/2026

"Can MAGA just use their own D-list celebrities?"

"Honestly, I don’t expect people like her to save the world but you bet your arse I’ll remember the people who stood up in their way when the moment called for it." ~ comments

04/10/2026

This is the energy. Good parenting creates kind leaders who care.

04/10/2026

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04/10/2026

5 Signs Not to Get Back Together: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/02/5-signs-not-to-get-back-together/

03/28/2026

“And you ask things about me, and I tell you about myself. I do not know why I tell you so much truth, but you are beautiful and I am tired—though I am attached, too, to my alone-ness. The longing is here: the longing for a friend, for a gold lover to stretch out on my gray sheets. The longing to love and even bicker about the little things: the longing is right here.”

~ Waylon H. Lewis, Things I would like to do with You.

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03/24/2026

"Supposedly, he loved flying and being in nature. I feel so bad for him and his fellow pilot—and also the poor air traffic controller guy. What a friggin' tragedy.

We can spend so much on war but we "can't afford" to hire back the air traffic controllers fired by DOGE."

03/24/2026

I write this piece not only for myself, but for my daughters and all women.

03/24/2026

#5: White People love Museums

Unpopular opinion: Most stand-up comedy…isn’t funny. But this? 5 minutes of funny.
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2026/03/unpopular-opinion-stand-up-comedy-isnt-funny-other-than-this-one/

03/23/2026

Okay I have a "confession" to make:

I have never really enjoyed much stand-up comedy. All those specials on Netflix? I watch them stony-faced, or rather I don't watch them. Watching the crowds in the shows, it feels like fake laughter, they're just laughing because they're there and they're supposed to laugh and have a good time.

This is not to say that I don't enjoy comedy, or laughing! I do, both, very much! Any time! But stand-up. Most of it is...weirdly unfunny.

So, watching this, laughing for 5 minutes straight...

Unpopular opinion: Most stand-up comedy...isn't funny. This 5-minute routine by Trevor Noah? Funny. Okay I have a confession to make: I have never really enjoyed much stand-up comedy. All those s...