"Your future gets shorter and you recognize that. In recent years, I have had no desire to do anything but work and be with John. I hear people talking about going on a vacation or something and I think, what is that about? I have no desire to go on a...

What’s the best TED Talk ever? That’s the little debate taking place on Reddit.com, and the answer is not obvious, seeing that TED now has over 500 talks available in its archive. LINK

Novelist Cormac McCarthy sets up grim stakes early on in his post-apocalyptic parable The Road. The Woman tells the father of her son: “Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us. They will rape me. They’ll rape him. They are going to...

I just spent way too much time looking at men in rad clothes. LINK

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one’s wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler “fresh rolls” if he hopes to feed the townfolk. LINK