Today I happened to see a chat show in which a woman was complaining that her very healthy, 87 year old mother was denied a non life threatening pain relieving shoulder operation on the basis of her age. My mum thought that this was a terrible injustice, that we all pay equally into the NHS (for any non UK people who don’t understand this, ask) ( Read more... )

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Dear "The Sophist,"

Why is it that the American people persist on being such dicks about gay marriage?

Dear "The Sophist,"

This is a question of the utmost importance to my future quality of life. In the future, when I work for a blood-sucking evil corporate law firm, and I spend an hour asking the sophist a question about a case, may I bill the client for that hour?

Why is it that only at the end do we see our follies, and never near the beggining when we might have the time to correct our course? Why is it so hard to live a life without regret?

Dear "The Sophist,"

I have a question that has puzzled some of the great minds of our generation, such as Tom Servo, Crow, and Joel Hodgson. My question is "why does the movie 'Werewolf' (AKA "Whirrr-Wulf") hate Joe Estevez's groin?

Why is it that, once spring has hit, places of commerce (especially those that specialize in serving food to you at a table) insist on maximizing the output of air conditioning units? Do the people making these decisions not realise that the temperature they are subjecting patrons and workers to is, in fact, colder than the temperature at which ( Read more... )