Archive for December, 2009

no image

LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 589

Posted on: December 23rd, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

Money sure as hell does buy happiness. Why would anyone even question that? Check out what poverty buys sometime before shooting off your [...]

no image

HUNTING AND GATHERING

Posted on: December 23rd, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

While mankind has progressed quite a bit since our early days of being scrawny, cave-dwelling scavengers who hunted and gathered for a living while trying to dodge gigantic predators who had a hankering to hunt and gather us, we’re not completely out of [...]

no image

LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 588

Posted on: December 23rd, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

No two people experience this world in quite the same way. What you see and feel is what you alone see and feel. For others, it’s different. Respect [...]

no image

LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 587

Posted on: December 22nd, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

One man’s madness is another man’s bliss. Looking around at the world men have created, who can say who is correct and who is the [...]

no image

RELIGIOUS REFORMATION BY LEGAL DECREE, ANYONE?

Posted on: December 22nd, 2009 by Bob Crespo 1 Comment

A very old religion that prohibits women from full participation in their faith is feeling the wrath of some women who feel unfairly disenfranchised. What religion would that be? Why, Judaism, one of the oldest religions around. It seems that a bunch of women [...]

no image

LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 586

Posted on: December 20th, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

Someday archaeologists will wonder what to make of the ruins of Disneyland. That ought to make for some whacky theories about life in the 21st [...]

no image

THE DAY NEW YORK STOOD STILL

Posted on: December 20th, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

Nothing like a blizzard to let us know that anything we had planned really wasn’t so important that it couldn’t be put off for a day or two. It seems Mother Nature decided that the entire Northeast would look pretty good covered in more than a [...]

no image

LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 585

Posted on: December 17th, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

A word to the wise is unnecessary. It’s the fools that need a good talking [...]

no image

STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT!

Posted on: December 17th, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

While we are in the business of commanding the tides with all the efforts to combat global warming, we might as well order the earth to stop sliding her damned tectonic plates around too. Where do you think all those devastating earthquakes and tsunamis come [...]

no image

LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 584

Posted on: December 17th, 2009 by Bob Crespo No Comments

Fruit cake is remarkably similar to food, but don’t be fooled. It is a [...]