To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
I don’t swear often. I do swear, just not often. I have two reasons for restricting my use of profanities. Neither of them have anything to do with any moral problem I may have with swearing because I have no moral problem with swearing. One reason I limit my swearing, the lesser of the two [...]
I don’t know how many blogs there are out there, but I’ve seen estimates that range from as low as 20 million to more than 100 million. In total, blog entries almost certainly number well over one billion and probably even a few billion. When you add to that the content of all other Web [...]
I’ve developed a theory which states that there is an enormous, but nonetheless finite number of insightful, informative or entertaining conversation ideas available in the world. However, because we have limited experiences and brain capacity, each of us can, realistically, access only an exceptionally small proportion of them. Thus, as cell phones, email, text messaging, [...]
In the interest of good mental health, we need some new telecommunications laws. For example, if you’re calling from a company called Monitoring Center, Monitoring Centre or some other super-spy sounding equivalent, you shouldn’t be allowed to call up a paranoid person, let the phone ring two times (just long enough so for caller ID [...]
Scientists tell us that single-celled life originally appeared on earth about 3.6 billion years ago, give or take a few hundred million years. The first recognizably human beings waltzed onto the scene roughly four million years ago. Alright, waltzed may not be the right word. I suspect that the best that they could do is [...]
There’s no need to tell me; I already know I’m an old fogy, but will somebody please tell me at what point did “was like” become a synonym for “said?” That little bit of language evolution snuck up on me while I wasn’t looking and now it’s common usage. You hear it every day. “I [...]