To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
I’m at the age when I’m still quite a ways off retirement, but I’m close enough that I should start thinking about it now. I’m more than a little concerned about what I’m going to do if and when I quit working. I don’t have any hobbies that consume a lot of time, unless, of [...]
I’ve got to believe that, during hot, humid weather, theater owners can make considerably more money showing An Inconvenient Truth, a film about global warming, than by showing just about any other film. I saw it on such a day. The theater was warmer than I would have liked. I don’t know about the other [...]
I just read a weird fact in the book The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins. Sea bass are bisexual, but not in the human sense of a person of one gender having both heterosexual and homosexual relations. Sea bass are capable of performing both sexual functions. They can produce either eggs or sperm. What’s even [...]
If you believe in newspaper horoscopes then you must believe that your life will follow a path that is very similar to the one followed by other people who were born on the same day of the year as you were. If this turns out to be true, then women who are expecting babies on [...]
Over the course of my life, I have developed a theory that has alarming implications for the health and well-being of the people of our nations. So far, I have only anecdotal evidence to back it up, but the evidence is extensive and profound. I am certain that rigorous empirical research, if performed, will verify [...]
One of the many serious questions that plague me and make it difficult for me to do anything productive is the following: Have the signs in front of “French Connection United Kingdom” stores, which often most predominantly display simply “FCUK”, ever triggered a conniption in a prudish dyslexic?
As I write this, much of the world is in the midst of World Cup fever. I’m not a sports fan, so that doesn’t interest me, but it’s reminded me of one of the weird, sometimes migraine-inducing, but generally quite wonderful things about my hometown, Toronto. It is such a cosmopolitan city that, no matter [...]
Yesterday, I saw the film An Inconvenient Truth (I highly recommend it), which served to reinforce in my mind the need for us to reduce our burning of fossil fuels, including, although not exclusively, oil. Unbelievable though it may seem, you may be one of the dwindling breed of global warming skeptics, but there are [...]