at the end of the day, the sun sets on all of us. we're stuck in this logjam together but we haplessly try to assume some sublimity while we still have a chance. because the real truth about it is that even though no one gets it right, we're all supposed to try anyway. the sooner one comes to affirmatively respond to this reality, the sooner one ( Read more... )

This calls to mind the sad case of some poor man's son, whom heaven in its anger has visited with ambition. He studies to distinguish himself in some laborious profession. With the most unrelenting industry he labours night and day to acquire talents superior to all his competitors. He endeavours next to bring those talents into public view, ( Read more... )

Walk around the west village then cut over to the east side as you head up north, around 14th-15th street and then walk around Gramercy - like the 20's/3rd ave., walk through Murray Hill and cut over to the west side (9th ave.) in the 40's, take a walk through Hell's Kitchen and when you get to the 50's go back to the east side and finish your ( Read more... )

Overall the Commentary titled “Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy” is so poorly informed and argued I am unsure if the cited authors are simply ignorant, significantly unskilled, deliberately mischievous or the hapless victims of editorial manipulation for what appears to be largely marketing purposes. Perhaps it is ( Read more... )

You asked for it, so here it is!

Before you begin reading my life story (life ~= high school up to today) remember what I said about autobiographies last month ;). I'm neglecting to inform you about my boring childhood because you'd be bored reading about it.

Despite inauspicious beginnings, I started relatively young, yearning for something sexier ( Read more... )

A fascinating area where hierarchies tangle is government - particularly in the courts. Ordinarily, you think of two disputants arguing their cases in court, and the court adjudicating the matter. The court is on a different level from the disputants. But strange things can start to happen when the courts themselves get entangled in legal cases. ( Read more... )

Every woman has reminiscences which she would not tell to everyone, but only to her friends. She has other matters in her mind which she would not reveal even to her friends, but only to herself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a woman is afraid to tell even to herself, and every decent woman has a number of such things ( Read more... )

you should take me seriously ( Read more... )

One day I'm going to move out of Ontario, to a place where I can be alone, completely stripped of people and any need to conform or for approval. I'm going to be alone, write, and fill up every space with music ( Read more... )

An erect human penis can be so hard and stiff that people jokingly express skepticism that there is no bone inside. As a matter of fact lots of mammals do have a stiffening bone, the baculum or os penis, to help the erection along. What's more, it is common among our relatives the primates; even our closest cousin the chimpanzee has one, although ( Read more... )