An interesting connection between fictional detectives which I didn't know about:

A major tension in parenting is that you need to take care of your children and at the same time teach them how to not need you.

"I'm hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan like every sparrow fallen, like every grain of sand." (Bob Dylan, Every Grain of Sand) Has a better lyric for a song ever been written?

A problem with being a free speech "absolutist" is that, in this unqualified sense, it would mean that perjury (in court) can't be a crime. Also, that fraud can't be a crime. (because internet: I say this as someone who is very pro-free-speech)

I really feel like I deserve some kind of medal for doing squat day even though I'm sick and my back hurts. But all I'm going to get are stronger muscles. Sometimes life is fair, which feels very unfair.

Friends, Jesus speaks of loving and forgiving our enemies, but this is one of the very hardest of his teachings to realize in practice.  That Erika Kirk was able to pronounce a word of forgiveness to her husband’s assassin was breathtaking. foxnews.com/media/pastors-…

Being a saint would be so much easier if it was enough to speak the truth and you didn't need to live it, too. (because internet: this was inspired by my own failings.)