His official USGA handicap is 2.5, which is a pretty funny joke.

It is actually from the column!

Here's a screenshot of the headline at 5:39 AM on May 29, in case they fix it later:

Here are the relevant maps, from the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...)

Trump hosted a gala event at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday to boost his failing meme coin ($TRUMP). The result: the value of the coin dropped by 15% in just a few hours and is now at $2.46, down 95% from its high of $45.47 the day before his inauguration. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/25/t...

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) is now flowering in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

I didn't say it's growing! I said that averaging the numbers since early 2025 obscures the fact that posting has been essentially unchanged for the past nine months. Here's a snapshot of the past 9 months in your own chart. Are the red lines getting taller, shorter, or staying about the same?

Insider Advantage is like the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae.

Insider Advantage struggling to hold up the collapsing tent of Trump Job Approval in the RealClearPolitics poll average.

I'll give him my 1979 Camp Forester Chess Champion t-shirt featuring actual Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar Sadat, but only if he appoints me director of NSF. The shirt is signed by Mohmed, our 1979 international staff member from Egypt who organized the tournament.

Earthquakes like this one (magnitude 4.2) are quite common in this area, which lies along the Dead Sea Fault. These are natural geologic phenomena. This USGS map shows recorded earthquakes in Israel and neighboring countries during the past 25 years (this morning's earthquake in orange).

Photo from 2002 showing recently deposited till alongside the rapidly shrinking Llewellyn Glacier in British Columbia, with a few small but distinct lateral moraines visible in the near distance above my head. The shrunken remnant of a tributary glacier occupies a cirque in the far distance.

Another photo of the same trimline further downstream, near the terminus of the Llewellyn Glacier, in 2010.

Photo of a researcher on the lower part of the Llewellyn Glacier in British Columbia in 2002. The trimline near the top, with vegetated outcrops above and bare rock and till below, illustrates how much the glacier has thinned in recent decades.

Here we go again. I don't normally save old magazines but I made an exception for these, because at the time they seemed prescient and historically important. And have since proven to be.

Here's another one, but in this case the xenolith of peridotite smushed the anorthosite xenolith underneath it.

Fun igneous geology: here's a rigid xenolith of peridotite in gabbro, with a less rigid xenolith of anorthosite that was smushed on top of it as the mushy pile of partially molten gabbro compacted under its own weight. On Sgurr na Stri, Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands.

Why suffer the embarrassment of answering tough questions in public when the Washington Post will invite you to write whatever you want in their newspaper?

Great photos, great outcrops! Here are a couple more from probably the same set of roadcuts. I was birdwatching last April but had to stop for the rocks.

I'm curious because the ice structures resemble those downstream from an icefall on the Gilkey Glacier in the Juneau Icefield, but the Gilkey lacks the prominent arc of rocky debris in your photo of Grand Plateau Glacier.

Matt Bors, for example. Elon really, really doesn't want me to hear from Matt Bors. I wonder why?