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“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”

Maggie Kuhn

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16 February 2026/

Every now and then another novel about immortality will appear on the charts. Dara Horn’s Eternal Life, first published in...

13 January 2026/

I thought I wrote the last words on “old age sucks,” but I am compelled to say bad things about...

9 December 2025/

Time out for a good word about homo sapiens. Well done, humans. In spite of wars, drive-by killings, child abuse,...

9 December 2025/

Old age sucks. But some people say it nicer. The poet Dylan Thomas, for example, says it real nice: Do...