To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
I recently read a news item on the CBC News Web site that suggested that consuming caffeine may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease or possibly even reverse it. At least, it may do so in mice. Whether it will work in humans is anyone’s guess. According to the article, researchers at the Florida Alzheimer’s [...]
The government today announced the formation of a sweeping, new regulatory agency that will oversee and govern the entire financial sector. Banks, stock brokerages, mortgage lenders, finance companies, hedge funds, mutual funds, asset management firms and insurance companies, among others, will all fall under the purview of this agency. This new regulatory body will be [...]
I hate spam comments. I’m not too thrilled about comments that are solely abusive either. Still, apart from those varieties, I love getting relevant comments that refer to the content of a post or, if the comments go off on a tangent, to the content of the comments. They show me that, much to my [...]
This is a quick note to retailers in my area. Everyone else, feel free to leave and do something that, unlike my blog, stands some remote chance of being the slightest bit enjoyable and/or productive. Retailers, are you are about to hold a huge, massive, immense, colossal, gargantuan, gigantic, and all other synonyms of really [...]
I’m 56 and single. All things considered””my many neuroses being among those things to consider, the chances of me finding a woman with whom I’m likely to be able to enter into a romantic relationship are bleak at the moment. I use the word “bleak“? in the sense of the prospects of survival being a [...]
This probably marks me as a very sick individual, but I get a kick out of life’s big and little ironies. For example: I suffer from uncontrollable giggles when the workers at a union’s headquarters go on strike. What happens if the bargainers for the striking union office workers go on strike at the same [...]
I often get to wondering how objects that have been around for a long time were invented. A lot of things that seem natural to us now must have, at one time, seemed totally bizarre to everyone but the inventor. So how did the idea pop into someone’s head? As an aside, I should note [...]
MC Press, the publisher of my book, BYTE-ing Satire, usually has a semi-annual sale in its online store during June and December. This month (June 2009) it has BYTE-ing Satire on it’s “$5 Table.” The suggested retail price is $14.95, so you can buy it now for a few cents more than one-third of the [...]