When I was a kid, growing up in the 1970s, I fully expected men to be visiting Mars by the time I graduated from college…
Category: Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Shame is the Name of the Game
Shame has become big business, nowadays. Really big business…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Things Aren’t As Bad As You Think
On the Gapminder’s website, you can pick any year you want, and see how the “Life Expectancy” changes with improvements in family income…
READY, FIRE, AIM: To Burn-out, or Not to Burn-out; That is the Question
According to WHO, ‘burn-out’ is an ‘occupational phenomenon’. A ‘factor influencing health status or contact with health services’…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Birds and the Bees
Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let’s do it, let’s fall in love… — Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in READ MORE
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Soup Goes to War
I hear things are not going so well for the Ukrainian army…
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Few Words from a Candidate Who Wears Plaid Shirts
He’s been quoted as saying he wants to “save our Democracy from a radical conspiracy nut” and that “Boebert is weak and going to lose…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Monopoly Money
Back in 2013, a financial analyst named Glen Tickle figured out the exchange rate of U.S. dollars to Monopoly money…
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Women Rule the World
We might put the history of female voting into some perspective…
READY, FIRE, AIM: I’m Going into Stage I Restrictions
So we can’t use water, and we can’t use fire. What’s next on the menu? Can’t breathe the air?
READY, FIRE, AIM: What Doesn’t Kill Me Only Makes Me Stranger
That is not a typo in this article headline…
READY, FIRE, AIM: When Robots Feel Sad
“If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Water, Water, and Water
Now that I think of it, I have never seen a photo of Ms. Boebert holding a glass of water…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Four Day Work Week Test
More than 3,000 workers, in about 70 British companies, are participating in an experiment to find out if a four day work week will increase productivity…
HMPRESENTLY: The Greatest Movement?
Sean Connery, as James Bond, facetiously told another one of the characters in the film — a certain Dr. Leiter — that recovering the concealed item was “alimentary…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: I’m Gonna Kick Climate Change’s Ass
There, I’ve thrown down the gauntlet. Whatever a gauntlet is?
READY, FIRE, AIM: You Are What You Don’t Eat
“We are all the descendants of people who for hundreds of millennia spent their days doing primarily one thing — assuring their food needs were met…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: I Can’t Help Thinking
I wake up in the morning, and I realize that I spent most of the night dreaming about the most ridiculous situations…