To commemorate the life of an Italian explorer who inadvertently discovered the Americas (he believed he had found India) and brought slavery, war, and destruction to the inhabitants of the “New World”, let’s take a look at some other stuff that’s not important: I don’t want to sound like one of those “back in my day” jerk offs, but it seems [...]
I saw a commercial recently (for a product I can’t recall), and it was just some girl talking about having one of those days where everything seems to go right – i.e. you find money in an old jacket pocket, you don’t hit any red lights on your way to work, etc. Now I’m not saying we all haven’t [...]
An entertainer named Bert Williams once said, ”The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator’s place and laugh at his own misfortune.” Laughing at yourself is a tough thing to do for most of us in these situations, because few people like dealing with misfortune. Whether it’s minor – like falling down in [...]
We have all had those days (or weeks) where nothing seems to go right. Sometimes it is something as insignificant as stubbing your toe when you stumble out of bed in the morning, which starts your day off on the wrong foot. Other times it can be a long string of events that get progressively worse as [...]
