“A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
P. G. Wodehouse
Sep
13
As if COVID wasn’t bad enough, now you can’t even go to the mall to shop without running into feral packs of domestic terrorists beating the shit out of white people and interrupting meals at the food court with requests to raise a Black Power fist. Where does that leave people like me who are […]
Sep
20
raise /rāz/ verb lift or move to a higher position or level raze /rāz/ verb completely destroy I’m calling bullshit on this second word. There is no way that it was intended to mean both. It’s so obvious that somebody in a position of authority somehow flubbed saying ‘raise’ in the right context […]
Sep
19
(originally posted 8/26/2018) Back in 1960 James V. McConnell, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, believed that information could be stored outside the brain. He created a series of tests using flatworms that seemed to indicate that Memory-RNA, a special form of RNA — the intermediary form of genetic information that […]
Sep
18
(Originally posted 1/13/2013. I thought, given our current situation, that another pep talk was in order. Or at least an old one.) I knew times were getting tight with the economy and all but I had no idea that things had become generic cereal bad. As soon as I swung open the back of […]
Sep
17
If there’s one thing that we can’t accuse the United States of doing is trying to put all of our eggs in one basket. Simply put, there would be no benefit to it. Considering that the US produces 99 billion eggs a year, just the logistics of getting all of those eggs to one location […]
Sep
16
(originally posted 8/22/2014) The chimpanzee and dolphin are the only other animals that have sex just for fun. They are also among the most highly evolved. What does that say about sex? Angelo was certain of only one thing in his life. He was not getting enough. His wife, although physically attractive, had […]
