Money sure as hell does buy happiness. Why would anyone even question that? Check out what poverty buys sometime before shooting off your [...]
Archive for December, 2009
HUNTING AND GATHERING
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 [...]
LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 588
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 [...]
LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 587
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 [...]
RELIGIOUS REFORMATION BY LEGAL DECREE, ANYONE?
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 [...]
LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 586
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 [...]
THE DAY NEW YORK STOOD STILL
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 [...]
LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 585
A word to the wise is unnecessary. It’s the fools that need a good talking [...]
STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT!
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 [...]
LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 584
Fruit cake is remarkably similar to food, but don’t be fooled. It is a [...]


