He leaves out, however, the hardest part, which is figuring out what you want to be in the first place! My own low self esteem came from me not being the things that OTHER people want me to be (and that quite frankly, I never could be). It took me a long time first to stop listening to the others and second to decide…

The real truth about College is that originally it was never intended as job training for anything outside of academics (or the clergy). At best, for non-academics, it was supposed to broaden your character and (hopefully) teach you how to think critically. Now people think College should be training them for working…

Don't forget the Bunny Cage hotel for Honeymooners.

All except for the funny accent! :)

A 75-85% chance that something will kill you is a pretty good reason to keep screening and treating.

For myself, I have a reasonable amount of chocolate each morning with my coffee, mainly for enjoyment, but also because I find "feeding the beast" makes me less likely to snack during the day. I wouldn't' be surprised if the same was true for this study.

And he's Irish!!

There is a historical record of some kind of atmospheric event in 536 that lead to widespread crop failure and probably contributed to a plague in the following years.

New experiment: We'll cover you with bloodsucking horseflies and see if A) You attract a mate, and B) you live longer than it takes the flies to reproduce one generation. Me thinks the ladies will run and the flies will be having a party on your fresh, warm corpse.

Excellent article - thanks!

To be honest, my wife taking my last name (and making her maiden name her middle name), is just one less hassle for the endless pile of paperwork that my family has to wade through every year just to remain functioning members of society (unless the paperwork requires a birth certificate, then we need to bring the…

So? The Royals are not real people. They are public animatrons. All the horrors listed here are just theatre tricks. Hollywood stars would live the same way if it was not so fashionable to have the public image of a train wreck.

They should scrap the post office and setup a federal ISP where everyone in the nation gets a free email account. Post offices could be turned into internet access points where free terminals and printers let people see their mail (or they could access it through their home computer). Instead of stamps, people would…

AKA: The forefront of evolution!

They should have just aired the final episode of The Prisoner. Now THAT would have tripped people out!

I agree, but I don't think it should be confused with the value of persistence. Making an idea a reality may require trying many different approaches, and that can take time. I think its more important to be able to walk away from something once you have reached the point where it is no longer feasible.

Not happening for YOU, you mean. Now if you will excuse me now, I must be going... POOF!

I was thinking all the "non-believers" should hide in their closets on Saturday morning. That way all the believers will wake up, find themselves all alone, and think that THEY are the ones who have been "left behind" to face six months of devastation followed by an eternity in Hell. Kind of a nice comeuppance don't…

Can't we just go back to the shady guy with the front and back billboard suit? Where is Rorschach when you need him!

I think the point is more creative, which is sometimes confused with "smarter". I think of it from a probability standpoint: if your brain is putting together different ideas that aren't "normally" associated, then eventually it will find a combination that works as something new. Do this more often than most people…