I watched a couple of episodes of Life on the Discovery Channel last night, so the following material kind of spoke to me this morning. “Animal Instincts” At the start, let me say I am not an animal rights activist. I’m not comfortable with absolutes. And I know that every time something eats, something else [...]
“What’s My Motivation” What’s all this stuff about motivation? I say, if you need motivation, you probably need more than motivation. You probably need chemical intervention or brain surgery. Actually, if you ask me, this country could do with a little less motivation. The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to [...]
“Baseball and Football” (This is one of my favorite bits from Carlin, and may be part of the reason why I have never had any interest in baseball) Baseball is different from any other sport; very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports [...]
“The Two Commandments“ I have a problem with the Ten Commandments. Here it is: Why are there ten? We don’t need that many. I think the list of commandments was deliberately and artificially inflated to get it up to ten. It’s clearly a padded list. Here’s how it happened: About five hundred years ago, a [...]
