Today, and other days this week, the name Michael Vick has played upon the lips of many of my Atlanta co-inhabitants. Everyone either knows or can find out easily why, so I won’t go into details except these two: 1. He’s an extremely talented and famous athlete. 2. He’s been accused of being deeply involved […]
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I'm too sexy for your brain
Seed Magazine points to a round-up of discussion of studies showing that intelligent people have less sex than their average-brained buddies. As if we didn’t already know that. I like looking at all the possibilities behind a finding and the article does a good job at stating them, so I won’t bother here. But there’s […]
Wine and Pretension
I recently had a chat about someone who claimed that drinking wine from one particular wine glass made the wine taste better than from another. Of course, the glass that makes it taste so delicious is extremely expensive. We chatters pretty much all agreed that the guy was pretentious or deluded. He may BELIEVE that […]
Connected
I’m connected with Ulysses Grant because he read Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad,” and so have I. (He read it while traveling through the same areas that Twain had written about. I love the idea of doing that, but I’ve often found that I’ve read the appropriate book months after, or before, getting to the place […]
Unique and Monique
We all know that words often change meaning over time. No one expects “answer” to mean “swear in response” as it did in Old English. But while they’re in flux, those who know a word’s original meaning usually consider it wrong to use it differently. Time goes on and either the new meaning becomes acceptable […]
Science in the Simpsons
Interview about science and the greatest show humanity has ever produced.
In Defense of Ear Plugs
I have a baby, who cries at night. She cries because she needs to be fed. In our house, the baby eats nothing but breast milk, so I can’t actually feed her without dipping into the precious supply of refrigerated (or frozen) breast milk we have on hand so that my wife can occasionally be […]
How Dare You Say Tushy in My House!
I would have thought that polite society goes only one way, which is down. That is, that over the years, more offensive words are allowable as people become used to them. For example, when I was growing up, no one said “ass” on tv, unless very specifically referring to a donkey. It just wasn’t done. […]
Shocking Truth
I’m as surprised as you are, but I returned the Sony Reader and asked for my money back. Amazing but true. In other news, I’ve just started reading “The Mighty and the Almighty,” by Madeleine Albright. Regardless of her politics, I think we can all agree that she’s smart, that she’s thought a lot about […]
Another Day in the Frontal-ZZZZZZzzzzz
Not long ago, I posted about a book that wasn’t written very well, but was so compelling in its content that all was forgiven. Unfortunately, I followed it up with one that more or less misses the mark. “Another Day in the Frontal Lobe,” by Katrina Firlik, sounds like an interesting read. Firlik is a […]