Voila, the Pundificator

Money, power and sex might not explain all of human behavior but they are still pretty good places to start.

The Name

Pundits know things and the word has uplifting Sanskrit origins. Pontificators tell you things, whether they know them or not, often in preachy, boring ways. Mansplaining? The combination began as a self-deprecating spoof, but it became a thing. Pundificator has ranked at the top of the Google search rankings for eight straight years. May it ever be thus.

Predecessors

I began blogging in 2011 as LibertyPell with the slogan “mostly not cracked.” The bell is gone, but the slogan still feels right.

All the LibertyPell stories are here. They were mostly about politics, but that topic was beaten into submission by mindless partisanship.

I moved on to Pundificator, where I wrote about a wider variety of topics and serialized my book, “Around the World in Fifty Courts” about a little known sport called court tennis that evolved into tennis as we know it today. Those stories are here too.

I have an increasing interest in how we are thinking about sports today, especially sports for kids. Watch for stories on that.

Finally, it could be whatever comes to mind.

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