By “more jolly” I mean “less likely to punch their own ticket to that big chow line in the sky”
A total of 131 men died from suicide during follow-up. A higher BMI was related to a graded decline in the suicide mortality rate, from 52 per 100 000 person-years among men with a BMI of […]

Ananova recently featured this story:
Online confessions for lazy Catholics
A Polish man is in trouble for offering an online confessional for Catholics who can’t be bothered with church.
Borys Cezar, 37, set up the website which welcomed visitors with the words: “Welcome to the virtual confessional.”
It continued: “Now write down your sins against Lord God. Do you […]

In yesterday’s post I mentioned World War Z. There was one part of the book in which the surviving members of society have formed various settlements and outposts. Having no prisons and few able-bodied police (all of those who can fight are off fighting the zombies) they resort to public humiliation to punish criminals. They […]

Slate published an article on this subject last week. It’s something that’s been on my mind for awhile but, for some reason, I never gave it much thought (until now.)
Slate.com: The Theory of the Leisure Class An economic mystery: Why do the poor seem to have more free time than the rich?
The article does point […]

I happened upon this article in the blogs section of the NY times:
Into the Mouths of Babes: Childhood Obesity
The article is about that 200 pound 8 year old boy in Britain whose mother may be charged with child abuse.
The comments section of the article is more interesting than the article. It basically explodes into […]

Well, here we go again, fellow F-sixes (a cookie for anyone who gets that reference.) The subject my brain has landed on today is parenting. I’m not currently a parent. The only thing I know about raising a child is that my parents did it right. I’m employed, educated, stable, I don’t wear diapers for […]

Traffic on the way into work this morning was unusually light. I had some extra time so I pulled into the decrepit Dunkin Donuts/Gas Station that never fails to enrage me for some reason. The exchange of money for donut went smoothly as did the purchase of a soda at the gas station register despite […]