To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
I’m a very public-spirited sort of a guy. Therefore, at a time when the World Health Organization (WHO) has already raised the swine flu pandemic threat level to five on it’s six-point scale, I feel the need to interrupt my normal blogging to pass this unpaid public service announcement along to my loyal reader(s): Whatever [...]
I didn’t intend to write two blog posts in a row about animals, but my mind goes where it goes. It’s not as if I have any control over it. Sometimes it wanders off on its own for days at a time and refuses to tell me where it’s been. I’m sure it’s up to [...]
Did you ever think that the other animals (animals other than us humans) may be capable of more thought than we generally give them credit for? I’m not talking about a specific animal. I’m not referring to your brilliant slave dog, Rex, who, when you say, “Rex, fetch my slippers, drop them at my feet, [...]
According to a Web site called WorldWideWebSize.com, as of April 22, 2009, the indexed Web contained at least 21.41 billion pages-and there are probably more by the time you read this. That’s just the number of pages that had been indexed by the major search engines. Those engines find a large percentage of the content [...]
I’m not a student of old or contemporary films, but I’ve seen enough of both to notice some profound differences between them. Just to be clear, when I say “old films” I’m talking about movies that were made before I was born. Oh, shut up! Yes, there were films made before then. I’m old, but [...]
One of my many pet peeves (I’m a lover and breeder of pet peeves) involves the fast food industry. Well, not really the industry itself, but rather some of its customers. Has this ever happened to you? You head into your friendly, local fast food joint, Rob’s Retch N’ Roll, where you are greeted by [...]
Many people want to know when the current recession will end. The answer to that question is so blindingly obvious that I’m surprised that all economists around the world have not figured it out yet. They haven’t. In fact, as best I can tell, none of them have come up with the right answer so [...]
I’ve come to realize that a great many people are thoroughly fascinated by a great many things that I don’t care a whit about. The following are just a few examples. I don’t care what kind of dog the Obamas got. Barack Obama is the president of the richest, most powerful country on earth. Even [...]