Happy July 4th, the birth of the freest & most transparent country in history, perceived to be imperfect because of its very transparency.

It has been a challenging harvest due to weather, but the resilient people I get to work with make all the difference #starrranch #gilbertorchards

The Eternal City 🏛️is always better when Russell Crowe Maximus Decimus Meridius is in town!

First they said Russia wouldn’t invade. Then they said we shouldn’t send Ukraine weapons. Then they said Ukraine would lose. Then they said Ukraine couldn’t win, even with western weapons. Now they are saying Ukraine should surrender. Russia’s apologists will never stop.

I spent the last 2 days with the NW Hort council and USApple in a push to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act in the Senate. I'm proud that it was created through bipartisan negotiation led by my representative, Dan Newhouse. Thank you Dan and everyone that is working it

"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."--Carl Sagan, died OTD 1996.

Twitter is like a large café, well, almost. You can sit at a table & listen to Albert Einstein, Max Planck & Paul Dirac trying to have a conversation while being constantly interrupted by two loud truck drivers in MAGA hats.

The real scandal of ChatGPT isn't that a robot can write like a human, it's that it exposes how many humans write like robots.

Another reason to enjoy delicious apples (and other tree-grown fruit) washingtonpost.com/food/2023/02/2…

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Atheism in the contemporary West is less a repudiation of Christianity than a logical endpoint of one of its key trends x.com/StoopToRise/st…

The buds are swellin...ready to pollenize the new crop #cherries #apricots #starrranch #gilbertorchards

At long last, the king bloom emerges on organic honeycrisp #gilbertorchards #starrranch

Happy birthday to the Copernicus of baseball, Earl Weaver. Would have been 93 today. This is a never-published picture of Earl as a toddler in St. Louis in the 1930s. Lots more coming on his fascinating, important, hilarious baseball life. Follow for updates.

It seems that so many wonderful people are leaving this world, and now Jimmy Buffett is one of them. I’ve known Jimmy for some time and found him to be one of the kindest and most generous people.  I remember once on holiday when I had forgotten to bring my guitar and was

You must come to grips with the fact that history may, of all alternatives, take the most irrational path, that is, the one that makes the least amount of sense to educated & neutral observers.