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Harry Reid and the Imp of the Perverse

A news story that appeared last Friday made me and a lot of other people chuckle. But it also made me pause for thought. In CNN online,

Why Your Everyday Life Needs a Laugh Track

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy;

Reflections on Davey Crockett

“Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the Land of the Free
Raised in the woods so’s he knew every tree

The Deeper Meaning of Michigan J. Frog

The most critically acclaimed cartoon, indeed what is considered to be the “Citizen Kane” of this genre, is “One Froggy Evening.”

How Not to Bring Yourself with You, When You Move

Way up there, on the list of life’s most stressful events, is moving, especially if it involves relocating to another city. I’m planning to move,

Is Nature Evil?

“When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember remember that this velvet

A Multiple Choice Exam Called “Your Life”

In his Confessions, the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy describes how, in latter life, he was ambushed by the specter of meaninglessness.

Living in the Moment, for a Moment

“Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” — Mathew 6:34
“There’s a special rung in hell reserved for people who waste good scotch.”

The Metaphysics of Fitted Bed Sheets

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus contended that the universe is maintained by a tension between opposing forces.

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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who

loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?