Tag: General nonsense

Let’s say your spouse decides to cook you an extra special meal. It’s your favorite. It takes him/her a lot of work. You enjoy the meal and naturally offer to do the cleaning up by yourself. But here’s the kicker: Your spouse loves to cook, and you hate to clean…

Let’s try a little experiment. I want you to think of one successful person. It can be anyone, famous or family member. Make sure you have just the one successful person in mind. Now concentrate on the first letter of that person’s last name. Good. I’ll do the rest. I…

In the news, a man named True is suing a company for allegedly lying. Meanwhile, a woman named Sage is trying to wisely explain why it’s not so much a lie as an expression of an unlikely event that some people interpret as a likely event, thus effectively lying to…

This isn’t my real post for today. That’s coming later. I just had to recognize how funny the comments are to yesterday’s post, where I asked you to describe your job with one humorous sentence. Some of them are pretty terrific, and I confess laughing every time the word “turd”…

When I was a kid, my family doctor was a hypnotist. He hypnotized my mom before she gave birth to my little sister. Mom reports that she felt no discomfort during the birth, despite being awake and having no drugs. That story had a big impact on me. When I…

If you asked me to list everything I’ve ever learned, in some sort of useful groupings, it would look like this: 1. Hypnosis2. Dale Carnegie’s techniques3. Everything else I have ever learned Hypnosis taught me how to understand people. It’s the useful core of psychology, sales, marketing, love, sex, crime,…

People often ask me how I come up with ideas. The fast answer is I’m just wired that way. But there’s also a large element of technique that I can teach you. In some long-ago post, I described how I filter ideas with my body more than my mind. Internally,…

One of the most popular arguments for the existence of God is that the universe has the precise balance of forces for sustaining life. This seems like a miracle to me, at least until I go outside in July without sunscreen, and burn like the last French fry in Hell….

Once upon a time there were dinosaurs. They died and decomposed and turned into oil. Millions of years later, humans turned that oil into plastic. Recently, plastic became the major building material for the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. There’s your proof that dinosaurs can fly. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19421415/ [no longer available] This…

When I watch a movie, I enjoy it more if I can empathize with one of the characters. I imagine myself in his or her situation: solving a crime, falling in love, wearing a leotard while battling injustice, and whatnot. It’s hard to enjoy a movie if I can’t relate…

When I saw the headline “Oklahoma couple claims $105.8M Powerball prize” I wondered about the age and profession of the husband. I also wondered if he would keep his job. And by “wondered” I mean I already knew it would be an older guy in a blue collar job who…

Terrorism is a good strategy in some situations, such as getting rid of foreign occupiers. I suppose it could work whenever the objective is clear and the enemy is capable of making the change desired. In those cases, terrorism is a rational, albeit horrible, strategy. But how could terrorism wipe…

There are two ways the United States can overthrow the government of Iran: 1. Massive military attack2. Withdraw from Iraq Inflation in Iran is running at 17%. Lately, Iran is experiencing civil unrest because they don’t have enough refinery capacity to produce gasoline. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19457357/ [no longer available] If America withdraws…