The Origin of a Pandemic

Yet again from the American media. CNN, in fact. Let’s just face the sad truth. There are no reputable news sources anymore. Anyway, whatever your opinion on what Lincoln University is doing, I hope we all can agree that the headline “College’s too-fat-to-graduate rule under fire” is inflammatory and misleading. Also, what’s with CNN’s titles…

As a child, growing up in Ohio, I thought a potato chip was a potato chip. When you only ever eat one brand, you have no reason to think any differently. Then, I grew up, went out into the world and ate potato chips of all makes and models. One day, I came to the…

Every rainbow has its pot of gold. It lies at rainbow’s end, that mystical place to which science tells us it is impossible to actually get. Metaphorically, this may be true as well, but we’ll get to that. Unless our early lives have been so tragic that we lose the ability, we all start out…

Calling someone “gainfully unemployed” (no, that’s not a typo), even when meant as an insult, is actually a compliment.