Bunny Love
How is [Hugh Hefner] who’s 78 years old able to have sex with that many women?He doesn’t really do anything. He just lies there with his Viagra erection. It’s just a fake erection, and...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Sweet Tooth
What the ancient Mayans relished was not solid chocolate as we now know it. Rather, it was a thick, gritty, generally unsweetened frothy beverage composed of ground cacao beans, water, and other spices and...
Social Insecurity
People’s incomes are swinging wildly—like winnings in a casino. In 1970, a [US] family in any given year had a one-in-fourteen chance of its income dropping by half; today, the chance is one in...
Sick Transit
One-third of U.S. patients with health problems reported experiencing medical mistakes, medication errors, or inaccurate or delayed lab results—the highest rate of any of the six nations surveyed [Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, UK,...
Lies, Damn Lies
The latest [US] BLS employment situation report states 4.5% unemployment, and 167,000 jobs created in December … the headline “unemployment” number we see every month isn’t the unemployment number — it’s one of many,...
All Things Are Lights
It will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100,000 years hence will find...
Raging Bull
Working in Morgan Stanley for a few months. It’s strange working just beside Wall Street – before it was something I usually only saw doing the tourist thing… now I am sourly pushing through...
Saddam On Finding A Good Wife
[Saddam] was particularly phobic about germs. Even top generals summoned to meet him were often ordered to strip to their underwear and their clothes were then washed, ironed and X-rayed before they could get...
Sic Transit
Prime Minister al-Maliki said in statements released Friday that those who opposed the execution of Saddam were insulting the honor of his victims. His office said he made the remarks in a meeting with...
Dolphin Mania
Snaked out in a boat today past mangroves and into ocean. Was tracked by a school of dolphins swimming under the boat and jumping all around. They really do look happy. They remind me...