An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while. The American then ( Read more... )

a pretty good rant about religion in America (and pretty much the world, I guess) that sums up my own feelings on the matter.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/01/31/i-dont-care-about-your-invisible-jeebus/

I don't see how a young person could look at the news and see what is going on in America today and say "I want to be a police officer!"

Which probably means that only half-ripe sociopaths will choose to be police, making the problem even worse in the future.


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Between the Occupy Wall Street news and the election news I'm ramping up towards being pissed off constantly.

Maybe I need to quit reading about what is going on in the world.

It doesn't help that the internet is full of trolls, people that get off on making stupid comments just to get an angry response.

That shit is getting really old.

It's really annoying that human perception works in such a way that when we are miserable, like with a head cold from hell, time passes excruciatingly slow, but when we are doing something enjoyable, that same Sunday afternoon would pass in the blink of an eye.

I was born in 1965. My dad was in the army and I lived on army bases till he retired from the army when I was about 13.

I was pretty sure the the world would be destroyed by nuclear war before I hit 30.

I suspect this inner surety of the world's imminent destruction is part of the reason I'm not particularly ambitious about what job I work.

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He's getting on in years and he's not allowed to fetch his ball anymore, but he can still run around.

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My aunt died last week. She was my mom's younger sister. They were the two youngest in a pretty large family and they were best friends when they were younger ( Read more... )

About the only time I remember my dreams is when I'm woken up in the middle of one. And even then, the memory of the dream fades fast ( Read more... )

We drove down to Berkeley for a day trip of visiting book stores on Veterans Day ( Read more... )