I keep seeing stories about the ignorance of the general public. You usually see this sort of story around election time. The stories typically involve statistics about, for example, what percentage of voters can name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (It's John Roberts.) The point of the stories is that the average person is clueless. While I agree with that point, how does it help the avera...

The inflation rate in Zimbabwe just hit 4 million percent. Some people say it is only 165,000 percent, but they are just being stupid.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_re_af/germany_zimbabweThe tragic situation in Zimbabwe is no laughing matter. That's true for most of the world. So I try to avoid reading any news that would educate me. Nothing good can come from it. But for some reason I b...

As regular readers know, my goal is to win a Nobel Prize. I don't care which one. I'm just in it for the money. Last night I came up with an idea that should get it done.This idea targets The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I don't have any relevant education in those fields, and I haven't done any research, so I know I need to come up with something big to get the judges past their bias for...

This past week I was in Branson, Missouri, with my family. If you haven't heard of this tourist paradise, allow me to describe it with a list of key words, some of which are redundant:Pork rindsKiller lightningHumidityCountry musicMorbid obesityYee-ha!One day we went to something called a "water park." I had never been to such a thing and was excited about the prospect of standing in line for 45 mi...

I'll be travelling this week, so I don't know how much blogging I will be doing.About two years ago I started taking magnesium supplements because I saw something on the Internet that indicated?it might help my knees problems.?(My?knees always?hurt after exercise.) The magnesium either worked, or it was a remarkable coincidence, that after 15 years of knee pain it suddenly went away and has stayed...