I recently wondered why guys don't really get catty with other guys. Perhaps this is obvious, but here's my thought. Guys don't understand that girls wouldn't want them, so they don't even understand the threat that another guy possesses to them. While girls are overly concerned and paranoid regarding female...

During this season of 'The Office', NBC is having a contest on www.dundermifflininfinity.com. There are several different virtual branches, and they will be competing against each other. I have applied as Regional Branch Manager for the Schaumburg, IL branch (virtually the only available branch in the MidWest) to represent the...

So, after a year of going to the same healthclub in the mornings before work, I still don't know anybody. Partially because everyone's kind of tired in the morning, and partially because I don't like the idea of starting up conversations when males are undressing quite close to me. But,...

Heathcliff Huxtable. Claire Huxtable. Sandra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa, Rudi...Huxtable. What show were these characters all on? The Cosby Show. Why wasn't it called, "The Huxtables"? Ok, you lose the Cosby name recognition. Then, why didn't they keep the last name? Ok, 'cause that would be weird since they weren't his...

Recently, Senator Larry Craig was arrested for soliciting male prostitution in a Minnesota airport's bathroom by tapping his foot and waving his hand underneath the stall divider of a known place for obtaining these services. A couple of days after this was made public, I decided to be hysterical. I...

"Wisdom has very little to do with intelligence."

(continuation)#5: James MonroeMonroe signed the Missouri Compromise in 1820, prohibiting slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of latitude line 36-30, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. This compromise, meant to keep Congressional slave slate/free state power equal, not only contradicted Monroe's typical defense of the...

Biggify - to grow larger; increase; expand I use this word quite often, and yet it is not universally (or even locally) accepted. Let's say I want a logo bigger on an ad I'm working on, and I write down "BIGGIFY" on the ad and give it back to...

Read a cool quote today. Here it is paraphrased. "If we are able to redistribute the wealth of the world equally, so that there was no absolute poverty among us, we would still be left with those able to create wealth, and those who after spending their new inheritance, would...

Micro-loans: providing third-world entrepreneurs with the initial funding they need to create a profitable business that gets them out of poverty, in the form of an interest-free loan. The Nobel Peace Prize for economics last year went to Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, for his studies and work...