2025 Reads: Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr 📚

The first half: socio-political observations as relevant in 2025 as they were in 1931. The second half: meanders, with an ultimately disappointing conclusion.

I’ll allow that maybe I just don’t get it, but…

Filling out a form to get an approval in a work tool. There’s a mandatory form field with only a title and no help instructions.

Poke around, no training available to give me clues, no data from other similar records in the tool that helps.

Then I remember the boss move: “N/A”.

Boom, submitted.

Stupid micro.blog question that I can’t seem to figure out: my individual long-form posts from the past 6 weeks or so have reply boxes enabled on them as expected. Older than that: no reply box. Is that a built-in setting? Configurable somewhere? Broken?

Co-worker just sent a Teams chat: “I’ll be WTF today since school is cancelled”.

Now there’s a Freudian Slip if I’ve ever seen one.

Spent the night cooking sausages and flipping pancakes for a Shrove Tuesday dinner at church tonight. Good food, fun folks to spend the evening with. Definitely ready for sleep now.

Wow, Kyrie Irving out for the year with a torn ACL. The Mavericks have pulled off what SpaceX calls a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. Trade Dončić, Anthony Davis immediately goes down with an injury, now Kyrie… What a mess.

My unsolicited Oscars hot take: I’ve only seen 3 of the Best Picture noms, so I don’t have an informed opinion. But: Sean Baker has done some tremendous film making already, so if Anora follows in that line I’m happy to see him recognized.

Yesterday we had our Bishop’s visitation to our church congregation. A long day but a good one. I appreciate her enthusiasm for Jesus and her sermon which unpacked the Transfiguration. It’s a blessing to have landed in the Episcopal church. ⚓

Started reading Reinhold Neibuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society tonight. Holy cow. That first chapter could’ve been written today and not 1932.

OK, Bracket.city. This is cool. How long until NYT buys it?