Thanks, Dad.

Thank you, for everything, and I’m really sorry you never felt like you could tell me the stories. I would have listened. I would have loved you.

Thank you, veterans and active military

This is Sgt. Daniel S. Campbell, my dad. He served in Vietnam (an old man in his 30s) and nearly died, but for the gallantry (and, as my father said, the stupidity) of a kid from West Virginia. I wrote about that here. I will owe that “kid” for the rest of my life.

And the most religiously diverse region is…

…not us. It’s Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan. And even more interesting, in this round-up at Vox? Maybe the most surprising thing here is that most of the US’s religious diversity comes not from religious minorities, who in total are only 5.3 percent of the population, but from the 16 percent of Americans who are unaffiliated. It’s …