Dan Kelly
@Golf_Crazed
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“Man does not live by golf alone. But he can try!”
Hopkins, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Joined February 2016
“Liberals are at a disadvantage when it comes to authoritarians, because liberals are committed to procedures and institutions, and persist in that commitment even when those things falter and let them down.“ Gopnik, ibid.
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“No doubt it is a good idea to tell people to keep cool in a fire, but that does not make the fire cooler.” Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker, 5/27/2024
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"If you are tempted to rhapsodize about some imagined Edenic past, ask yourself whether you really have the fortitude to bury half your children before they finish puberty." -- Megan McArdle in The Washington Post
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J. Lepore: “Learning to code turns out to have been a terrible call; how much more precious to have studied the past, the mystery of iniquity, the chaos of strife, the messy, gripping, blood-drenched record of yearning that is the twisted and magnificent course of human events.”
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“At the heart of every acting career lies a paradox: the ambition is for self-recognition; the art is of self-disappearance.“ Adam Gopnik, in The New Yorker, 10/27/2025
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“We live in a society of doxing, trolling, cancelling, sanctioning, slandering, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, prosecuting, firing, and sometimes killing over the expression of an opinion.“ Louis Menand in The New Yorker, 10/6/2025
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Foggy day at Oak Ridge CC (Hopkins Minnesota): the view from 13 tee.
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NYT: "Sports...arenas...are opening pricey—and exclusive—clubs. The spaces, some of which...cost members upward of six figures annually, have hidden entrances; fine furnishings; selfie-friendly bathrooms; and food and beverage options far superior to what’s...on the concourse."
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Headline of the Week, from The Washington Post: “Rescued chickens wearing diapers join monthly Florida yoga class.”
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“I don’t read much. Usually I read what people put in my hands. But I do read Hemingway. He didn’t have to use adjectives. He didn’t really have to define what he was saying. He just said it. I can’t do that yet, but that’s what I want to be able to do.” Bob Dylan in a 1964 NYer
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Just plain incredible. https://t.co/XbQwVfahYD?
nytimes.com
Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz face up to 65 years in prison if convicted.
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“The position that we should not want to make all Americans think alike has an exception, which is that we want all Americans to think that we should not want to make all Americans think alike.” Louis Menand in The New Yorker, 6/7/2021
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