Tag: General nonsense

One of the cool things about being an optimist is that quite often I believe I have come up with an idea that will change the world. This is a wonderful feeling that lasts from the moment I think of the idea until the moment I realize I’m full of…

Yesterday as I was deboarding a flight I peeked inside the cockpit and wondered that the f**k all those buttons and knobs and levers are all about. Seriously. Do they really need all of that? It seems to me that the steering wheel thingamajig does about half of all the…

Recently an airport security guy confiscated my 4 ounce shampoo container because he said the maximum allowed is 3 ounces. I pointed to the airport’s own sign that says 4 ounces is allowed, but that didn’t seem like a good argument to him. It was too late to check my…

Several years ago, in the closing pages of my otherwise humorous book titled The Dilbert Future, I told a weird little tale of how I used a technique called affirmations in my attempts to achieve a number of unlikely goals. Since then, I’ve received more questions on that topic than…

This is a Sunday post, so any of you who are expecting a funny post should surf away while you can. From now on, Sundays are for people who like to “think about stuff.” Lately I’ve been wondering if some creative economist could come up with a formula for quantifying…

I was watching the news the other day when I see that yet another husband is suspected of killing yet another wife who has gone missing. It’s pretty much automatic to suspect the husband in cases like this. This is one of the factors I had not considered before getting…

Have you been following the story of John Mark Karr? He’s the guy who confessed to killing the little girl, JonBenet Ramsey. He was cleared by DNA testing. Then he was arrested for child porn in an unrelated case. Those charges just got dropped. I’m wondering what kind of career…

Someone here asked a great question about success and failure: How do you know when to quit? As I said in my earlier post, I’ve failed at 9 out of 10 business adventures. I have an actual running list of my successes (3 notables) and failures (30). On my list…

I was about 9-years old when I told my mother I planned to win an art contest that was advertised on the back of a cereal box. If my drawing of the famous geyser Old Faithful were judged one of the best, I’d win a prize. Mom tried to explain…

I have a theory that says no one can tell the difference between a GREAT idea and a stupid one. If anyone had that sort of insight, he would be able to charge a billion dollars an hour for consulting, and there would be a long line of corporations willing…

It has come to my attention that many of your ancestors were pedophiles. They probably didn’t know it, since marrying 15-year old girls was considered “normal” by those perverts. And I’m sure they had excuses such as the fact that the life expectancy was 17. So maybe they rationalized it…

Every time there’s a military conflict, someone points out that many of the victims were NOT adult men. The theory is that a tragedy is way more tragic if anyone other than adult men get killed. If you throw a woman or a minor or a puppy into the mix…

I used to think that some of my oddest thoughts were an indication that I am some sort of genetic freak or possibly the result of alien experimentation. But the more I share my thoughts in this blog, the more I find out that I am not alone. Millions of…

Here’s a page with some Einstein quotes to show that he didn’t believe in a God who concerns himself with human affairs: http://www.2think.org/einstein.shtml Just to be clear, I didn’t mention that Einstein sides with me as proof that I’m right about the non-existence of free will. Obviously Einstein could be…

Many of you think that my assertion that free will is superstition is unfounded. You ask if there is any test supporting my view that free will does not exist. I could weasel out of this by noting that the EXISTENCE of free will is the extraordinary claim, since it…