I’m dreading tomorrow. I have a lively, interesting and strange life, but in almost two years since Grace died, I have concluded that 1) I really hate being single, 2) I didn’t tell her how much I loved her enough, 3) I see no possible path to ever having serious female companionship again, and 4) it is amazing that I had the four serious romantic relationships I did have, since all of them were started by the women involved, because in that realm, I am and have always been the ultimate weenie.
The compensating factor is that I have known, admired and loved an amazing group of brilliant, talented, powerful, funny, strong, tough and challenging women over the years—my mother and younger sister qualify—and all of them either married someone else, or scared off men so much that they never married at all.
But enough whining: Last night I was musing about how to find more reliable, non-ideological news aggregators. There may not be any. Ann Althouse likes memeorandum, which I have come to realize is as partisan as the old Drudge Report. Mirabile dictu, I woke up this morning and without even searching for it, stumbled over an article from last spring titled, “10 Great News Aggregator Websites You Should Check Out in 2025.” I use some of them, including #10, which despite its ostentatious leftward bias is great source of marginal news, but I was not aware of many of the others, including The Morning News, #8.
Longtime reader Fred spent a couple years being my ethics story scout, and while many of you regularly send me links and suggested stories (and I am duly grateful), I’ve never felt like I have been close to covering my dauntingly vast (and important) topic since Fred went on other pursuits.
Now please, make some noise. I’ll be listening…
Ethics Alarms 
Well, there’s this for the day before Valentine’s Day: Winter Olympics athletes’ village runs out of condoms in just THREE DAYS as one competitor moans: ‘They promised us more will arrive’ | Daily Mail Online
Kind of brings an entirely new perspective to “the Olympic spirit,” not to mention, “The Wild World of Sports.”
Interesting how the organizers’ objective is to facilitate absolutely as much sex as possible but to, at all costs, prevent pregnancies. They talk about a concern for the health of the athletes, but seem to have no concern whatsoever for their mental and emotional health. That’s hook up culture, I suppose.
Hey man. The world of women and love is a crazy one. All men feel a bit confused at times. I’m sure the loss still hurts you a lot.
I don’t have any good advice here, as my relationship of ten years recently ended (I think).
For the open forum, I recently visited a new Chick Fil A, and they have two lanes for the drive thru, one for regular users and another for mobile users. The mobile users only have a QR code to scan. The workers are standing on the other side, forcing anyone who doesn’t want to use a QR code but use the “quicker” mobile side to flag down a worker or just go inside. I find that incredibly annoying.
I vaguely remember you saying something about how smart phones should not be required for basic tasks (I think). If that was you, I agree.
We had to put our 11 year old Golden Retriever to sleep yesterday. I so much hate having to make that kind of decision, and we always second guess ourselves. I’m sure many pet lovers reading this will understand the feeling.
I know that we did the right thing, although he seemed to be otherwise healthy, the cancerous tumor had grown to the point where it was affecting his quality of life. This is the 3rd Golden Retriever we’ve lost to cancer; one would think we’d have learned our lesson by now. I don’t think I could go through this again.
May your doggie rest in peace chasing squirrels, cats, and cars in Doggie Heaven.
jvb
“I’m sure many pet lovers reading this will understand the feeling.”
My sincere condolences! I posted THIS 77 months ago; the last sentence rings true to this day.
PWS
Oh no. I’m so sorry. I’ve gone through that trauma six times, and I can make myself cry by thinking about any of them. And so many people don’t understand…
A couple of years ago in the lead-up to a mid-February Hallmark holiday, I published an essay about the best romance films produced by Classic Hollywood.
Nearly every entry on my list also qualifies as an ethics film. (I guess those are the most interesting.)
Here is an answer from Quora.
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-white-liberals-in-Minnesota-fight-against-ice-go-down-like-Vietnam-as-one-of-the-only-time-the-United-States-was-defeated/answer/Sara-Kopper
nd, for the latest news bulleting from the Olympics:
https://babylonbee.com/news/fraud-suspicions-arise-as-somali-team-wins-734th-gold-medal-at-winter-olympics?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email