In the 10 days since Gov. Sarah Palin was introduced to the world, she hasn’t appeared on Meet the Press so much as once. She hasn’t talked to Barbara Walters and tried to keep a straight face during questions like, “If you were an igloo, what kind would you be?†She hasn’t submitted to...
Author’s note: This article was written a few years back so some things may have changed. Today’s Zoo Atlanta is a fascinating and busy place where fun and education go hand-in-hand. Megan Winokur, Zoo Atlanta’s public relations manager, says, “I love working here because I learn something new every day and not many people...
How then does one compete in a recessionary climate, when the commodity of keywords is just as inflationary as the price of oil?
In a previous blog, I wrote about a major disadvantage of fulltime homemaking as an occupation: there is no retirement from it. In that blog, I mentioned that my father is retired from being a cab driver. In the years since that retirement, he has never once expressed any guilt feeling about failing to...
In John Allen Paulo’s debut book, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, this mathematician brought a sparkling wit and astute powers of observations to the widespread problems of math deficiencies and math avoidance. He followed that brief and potent book with several others including Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man and A Mathematicians...
Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, claims that Moses was high on psychedelic drugs on Mount Sinai when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments. Let’s see… Honor your father and mother, don’t steal, don’t kill, don’t covet your neighbor’s wife, don’t commit adultery, remember the Sabbath...
The recent stories about Hillary Clinton’s campaign spending money like a lonely male Lotto winner at a strip club have given us a new look at the woman who would be President. We already suspected that she wasn’t ready to run the country, but the ways she’s spent campaign cash have pretty much solidified...
As any faithful reader of old Superman comics will tell you, one of Superman’s nemeses was Bizarro. For those of you who have lives, Bizarro was a backwards version of Superman from a planet known as Bizarro World. On Bizarro World, everything was the opposite of the way things were on Earth. Up was...
I was chatting online with a friend of mine watching CNN’s coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary when my friend mentioned something said by one of the political experts they had. One of the experts said, hopefully with tongue planted firmly in cheek, that John McCain and Fred Thompson are working together to...
Yesterday I heard a BestBank radio commercial. A female narrator was talking about how the multitude of demands on her time leave her with no time left over to spend balancing her checkbook. I have three children, she says and then adds, four if you count my husband. I believe there would have been...
Yesterday I heard a BestBank radio commercial. A female narrator was talking about how the multitude of demands on her time leave her with no time left over to spend balancing her checkbook. I have three children, she says and then adds, four if you count my husband. I believe there would have been...
January 3rd came and went…and the political world didn’t end! Oh, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd both dropped out of contention for the Democrats after the Iowa Caucuses, but they weren’t exactly lighting up the Democrat side that much. Besides, in Biden’s case, I think he was just copying Dodd’s strategy. Yet, to hear...
The Huffington Post (colloquially known as the “Ton of Huffing Postâ€Â) insulted American intelligence last Friday by publishing a pretzel-logic rant by one Erica Jong, titled “Who’s Tired Of Pink?”. Fortunately, Ms. Jong speaks only for the few sociopathic women who wouldn’t know what to do with a good man if he fell out...
Many of the presidential candidates are running on the promise of change. Some are saying they will make more changes than the others. Is this a good thing? No! Change causes trouble! Think about it. Most of the problems we have today were caused by changes we made in the past. We changed the...
The Bible never tells us what the Forbidden Fruit was. We only know that, after some prodding by the infamous serpent, Eve gave into the temptation to eat it even though she had been told that the consequences of doing so would be death. Despite the Biblical silence on the question of what the...
Ah, New Year’s Eve. Remember all the fun you had looking at the past year and deciding on what you were going to do this year to make your life better? (If you can, you weren’t at the party I was. We drank like it was St. Patrick’s Day at the Kennedy Compound.) In...
A couple of local news stories about the holiday season caught my eye recently. One involved shoppers who made their way to the local temple to needless avarice with a food court (more commonly called “the mallâ€Â) at midnight the day after Thanksgiving to start their holiday shopping. The other story dealt with a...
There is a song currently being heard on the country stations called Cleaning This Gun and sung by Rodney Atkins. He begins by telling us that he doesn’t recall much of what he heard as a teenager in the classroom but says, “there is one speech from high school/I’ll never forget.†That one stuck...
Sometimes I could believe I was living in the Matrix. Only, I can’t imagine sentient programs creating a world as irrational as ours. We’ve come to expect the usual Christmastime attacks upon tradition in the name of the mythical “separation of church and state”; the nativity scene on public property and school Christmas celebrations...
In an already absurd political season, hearing the flap about Hillary Clinton’s campaign planting questions in the audience of a campaign stop made me look for a clown car and a three-ring circus. Then, I remembered she wasn’t in the well of the Senate at the time and I got my bearings. Seriously, who...
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