Let’s get things straight: an empathetic person isn’t weak. An empathetic person is strong. Weak people have been all over the Internet and television the past 36 hours. …

My son Anthony Sterling Rodgers, who I called “Lali,” died in my arms on the night of January 11, 2005. He was exactly six months old. In terms of his eyes, they were blue. I have never felt such fierce love as I did for Lali. …

Hurricane Ian’s political aftermath is terrible — surprise! — About 250 parrots have been rescued from a parrot sanctuary on Pine Island. One of my neighbors made a home on her deck for a baby feral pig who’d been separated from her mother during Hurricane Ian. People were afraid of the video of a shark swimming in the streets…

Surviving Hurricane Ian — “My daddy was my guardian angel,” said my friend who rode out Hurricane Ian in a manufactured home. She and her small dog are glad to be alive. Our guardian angels were also looking out for us. We are not only alive, safe, and well, our home survived Hurricane Ian…

I feared homelessness: here it is. — Our house is approximately 12 miles from the place where Hurricane Ian made landfall yesterday on Florida’s Gulf Coast. We evacuated Tuesday as per official orders and made our way some five hours later to a pet-friendly resort in Orlando. Ian, at about half the strength it was back home…

And I’m fine with that — There’s a hurricane on the way. It could tear the roof off of our house. The streets could be completely flooded. Power could be out for days. We could be without water for at least 72 hours. All of our food could spoil. That’s why everyone’s bought all the toilet…

The disgraced world-famous chef is still walkin’ around scot-free — By now, it’s hard not to see #MeToo as the height of bitter black humor. I hear that male victims of Boy Scout pedophiles are going to receive upward of $2 million each; there are over 30,000 claimants. But work for a top chef with a foul mouth and 800…

AI art programs are using living artist work as the basis to make stuff to order … free of charge — Listen, any tool you can tell to do a picture of Marilyn Monroe partying with Julius Caesar at Studio 54 in the “Style of Shepard Fairey” and it comes up with this —

Or ways for decent people to build better lives for themselves — I recall the joyous celebrations of many of my friends when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Roe v. Wade ruling that supported a woman’s right to an abortion. So, so happy, as if something wonderful had happened. This “human rights oriented” decision was made by the same group…