Tag: General nonsense

People keep accusing me of not stating my “true” opinions here. This puzzles me because I always think I’m quite clear on those rare occasions when I have enough information to form an opinion. I think it’s entirely appropriate to have no opinion when you don’t have enough information on…

I’ve noticed that men generally believe they are “different” from women, whereas women generally believe men are “defective” women. You can see that perspective in the comments to my last post. 90% of the gender difference seems to be the male preference for compartmentalizing thoughts while women think everything is…

Did you hear about the hot blonde 25-year old female teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year old student? Apparently they did it in an SUV, in the classroom, and in her home. That’s a serious crime. And yet, having been a 14-year old boy myself, I have a…

When I was a kid, I learned that you shouldn’t go swimming for two hours after you eat. I missed out on a lot of good swimming because of that. There are many things that used to be “true” that aren’t any more. Drinking water is still good, but you…

I have taught you many things, but for some reason I forgot to tell you how to lose weight. I give you now my very own diet plan. The key to this plan is taking tiny incremental steps that sneak up on you. With this plan, no week is appreciably…

In my recent blog I challenged you thoughtful readers to name a government policy that is supported by 66.7% or more of its citizens while being considered immoral by 66.7% or more within that same country. Only a few of you noticed that my challenge was very similar to saying…

I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes. (Those so-called constitutional things we…

Today, Sunday, I’m at the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, CA. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who is also there today between 11 am and 3 pm, ask them to ask me for a signed sketch for you if they can find…

Last May I started having trouble with my voice. I figured it was allergies. But it didn’t get better when allergy season ended. Eventually I went to the doctor and he told me it might be acid reflux. I popped the anti-reflux pills and waited for the cure. But it…

As regular readers of my blog already know, I’m engaged. I am learning many things about this process, each more shocking than the last. Recently I learned that, in addition to sending out wedding invitations, sometimes you also send out pre-invitations telling people to hold the date. This offends all…

There are plenty of laws against activities for no reason other than those activitiesare annoying. For example, you can’t make too much noise and botheryour neighbors late at night, you can’t litter, and you can’t walkaround naked in public. These are good laws but we should add some more. I…

I’m traveling today and writing this post on my Blackberry whilewaiting at the airport gate. I just realized that the enormous lump in mypants was my keys. (This time anyway.) Somehow I got through the metaldetector with a wad of keys the size of a small beaver, and I apologizefor…

If you had to design a dating web site that matched people on just two criteria, what would those criteria be? I think about this sort of thing all the time. And by “this sort of thing” I mean worthless questions. And I don’t give up until I have an…

In a recent post I mentioned that Penn and Teller claim there is no credible science showing that second-hand smoke is harmful. Someone commented by supplying a URL to Dear Abby where she mentioned a study about the bad effects of second-hand smoke. I wittily asked “You get your science…