Random Thoughts

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Everyone is unique. Ergo being unique doesn't make you special.

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Choosing a leader named Hostilius is probably just asking for trouble.

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Is it just me or is there something the teensiest bit ironic about concluding an online post in which you rant about the evils of capitalism with a sig that links your Etsy shop?

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Don't cats and dogs ever get venereal diseases? I've never heard that it can happen, but it would be odd if it doesn't.

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There are few bad situations that government intervention can't make worse.

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To the women who complain about not being able to find a gentleman: Have you tried acting like a lady?

To the women who complain their husband "never" does anything special for them: When was the last time you did anything special for him?

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I'm trying hard to think of something more stupid than deliberately humiliating (a la Nero) someone upon whose protection your safety depends, but I'm not coming up with anything.

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You know, most people would be satisfied with being a bad president. Not Carter, though; he has to be a bad ex-president as well.

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Names just don't come any better than Eric Bloodaxe.

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What ever happened to the word "envy"? For most of my lifetime, everyone is "jealous" of everything and no one is envious of anything.

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Note to would-be rioters: Damaging grocery stores is not the best way to lower costs in those stores. Riots and the fear of riots may have their place in the political arena--history evidences that--but adding to your local grocer's expenses won't help him lower prices.

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Am I the only one with a desire to scratch out "gender" on forms so impertinent as to ask me mine and write in "sex" instead?

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There seems to be an long list of things Americans today aren't supposed to say or to discuss. For all that some people (mostly conservatives and libertarians) complain about this, I haven't noticed the list getting any shorter.

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If we can have all our "I wonder"s satisfied in an afterlife, then one interesting question is how many innovations have we lost due to the litigiousness of contemporary society.

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You know, there is just no better way to show how vastly superior a person you are than to mock the purchasing power of those poorer than you. If you believe that, please go on doing it: the rest of us find it highly informative.


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Isn't it funny how when you give something away for free, people--however grateful they may have been to begin with--soon start to regard it as their due and demand it as a right if it is cut off?