My taxi driver tonight, Gurvinder Singh, was at the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11. For the next 40 days, he gave hundreds of rides to any New Yorker who needed, and refused all payment. He showed me the letter he got from Mayor Giuliani thanking him for his service to our city. Gurvinder emigrated from India 35 years ago and encourages all his riders to fly American flags. He asked that I share this message on the eve of 9/11: "love all people, respect all people. God bless you all and god bless America!" 🇺🇸

One of the most misunderstood phrases in American history is "the pursuit of Happiness." When Thomas Jefferson wrote those words, he was drawing on a long philosophical tradition that understood happiness as something much greater than pleasure alone. It was about cultivating virtue, exercising self-mastery, fulfilling one's responsibilities, and living a life of purpose and character. Happiness did not mean giving in to every desire, but the reward of living well. Today, many people have reduced "the pursuit of happiness" to mean, "Do whatever makes you feel good." That is a huge misunderstanding. Freedom was never intended to become a license for self indulgence or vice. The American Founders believed that a free people could remain free only if they possessed the virtue to govern themselves. A free society depends on people who first learn to govern themselves. Let's be those people.

Moe Berg travelled to Switzerland to attend a lecture by the eminent German physicist Werner Heisenberg. Berg`s mission was to determine how close the Nazis were to an operational atomic bomb, and if they were close, Moe Berg was to shoot Heisenberg and then kill himself. But after listening to the lecture, Berg decided they were not all that close, and his mission was aborted. Instead of killing him, Berg walked Heisenberg back to his hotel, picking his brain about physics along the way. "Moe Berg’s crucial contribution to the war cause, was that he could offer Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves and other Manhattan Project leaders “reassurance in some ways that there wasn’t something they were missing” regarding a potential German bomb". Sam Kean For his work with the OSS during World War 2, Berg was awarded the "Medal of Freedom". Moe Berg turned it down!! "Maybe I’m not in the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame like so many of my baseball buddies, but I’m happy I had the chance to play pro ball and am especially proud of my contributions to my country. Perhaps I could not hit like Babe Ruth, but I spoke more languages than he did" Morris "Moe" Berg. Catcher, served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during WWII. "The brainiest guy in baseball and the strangest man ever to play baseball. He can speak seven languages, but he can’t hit in any of them." Casey Stengel. "I know Moe that you are in counterintelligence, which I assume means you are against intelligence". Red Smith interviews Moe Berg. The 1934, the 'Connie Mack All-Star' tour of Japan was a pivotal, 18-game exhibition series in November-December 1934 featuring legends like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx Moe Berg wassn’t there for his ability to play, but to spy. While playing tourist in Japan, Berg takes hidden photos of important military and industrial sites for the U.S. Government, photos which will come in handy during WWII. "If he wasn’t real, you’d have to invent him" ALWAYS, ALWAYS in my HOF!!!!!!

January 11, 1787 — William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

November 2, 2016 — The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

"Look, It's Alice Kramden."

Who has a pan like this still?