And Criticizing It Is Not Blasphemy There’s a Simpsons episode from 1994 that I think about all the time. In the episode “Bart Gets an Elephant” the Democratic and Republican conventions are shown. While the Republican banners say, “We Want What’s Worst for Everyone” and “We’re Just Plain Evil” the…

He doesn’t have to be. With Ricky Wysocki’s 250k Bitcoin bonus and Paul McBeth’s 10-million-dollar, 10 year contract still fresh on the mind, it’s easy to forget that Disc Golf is still very much in a transition period. There are more full-time touring professionals than at any time in disc…

By measure of online engagement, the inaugural PDGA Champions Cup was a huge success. There has been more post-tournament chatter than after any event I can remember in the last ten years. Unfortunately, the two most common topics of discussion are a round shot by the ninth-place finisher, and of…

In his 2020 book, Why We’re Polarized, Ezra Klein tells an anecdote about the film 12 Years A Slave. He explains that a person’s political views can be mapped almost perfectly to their opinion about the film. Those with favorable views of 12 Years A Slave were considerably more likely…

For all its recent growth, disc golf is still a relatively small community with plenty of room for newcomers. This has led to a burgeoning discussion about growth, whether it’s always good, and how changes will affect current players. What is often lost in the discussion is not the number…

What we leave unspoken is often most important. It’s an assumption of understanding between speaker and listener, writer and reader. Henry David Thoreau memorably makes note of what is left unsaid in the early pages of Walden: In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it…

Whether or not you like him, Brodie Smith is talked about. And talked about. And talked about. Having seen the galleries following him at USDGC in person, his popularity and polarizing nature also flows into the real world. But I like numbers, and here are Brodie’s. In the last 12…

I was going to write about “No Children” this week, but I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m so busy this time of year that the undertaking seemed too daunting right now. We’ll tackle that particular beast later on. For this week, I want to talk about “Elijah”. It’s the…

Stephen King really hates Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In addition to describing Kubrick’s interpretation of Wendy Torrance as “one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film” he says of the film as a whole: I think ‘The Shining’ is a beautiful film and it looks terrific and as…