In a bleak but interesting post, Uncredible Hallq muses that aging and cancer are inextricably intertwined. You might not get cancer, but if you don’t, your cells will apoptosize, and you will age, which will result in your death. But… Continue Reading
Didn’t I just take a vacation? How come I’m so stressed out? I’ve had what feels like an unusually stressful week. Couple of weeks. Work has been at what often feels like a frantic pace. I’ve bowed to necessity and… Continue Reading
So I’m driving north on I-5 to get back to the Antelope Valley after my judging gig in Santa Clarita. It’s four lanes of traffic and the right two are filled with lines of trucks. I see one of them… Continue Reading
I read in Freakonomics that more children are killed every year drowning in swimming pools than are shot with guns. But no one fears swimming pools and lots of parents freak out when they find out that there is a… Continue Reading
Jerry Falwell has died and, like Andrew Sullivan, I can think of nothing particularly complimentary about the guy to say. Andrew Sullivan will pray for Falwell but that’s a fruitless exercise if you ask me.
When we buy a house, we ought to look for a house where someone has died recently. No, I’m serious. People, for some reason, seem to think that a death taking place in a house is a bad thing, something… Continue Reading
At least 22 people shot and killed in a rampage at Virginia Tech. The shooter, apparently despondent over a romantic issue, checked himself out after doing all this damage. Worse yet, it is initiating a debate about gun control,… Continue Reading
Generally an atheist, but was quoted to have said that if there was proof of God’s existence, it would be found in music. A writer of twisted yet profound fiction. Not the author or the giver of the insipid “sunscreen”… Continue Reading
An interesting thought from Mark Kleiman about capital punishment. I’m in favor of capital punishment, although I’m also in favor of making damn sure that the executed prisoner really was guilty, and too often our criminal justice system demonstrates more… Continue Reading