It's too easy to be good. I've already made the claim of how the addition of clapping in pop songs is unfair. Because it's contagious. It gets you into a groove without any work at all. The beats behind rap music are an exaggerated exploitation of this effect. Boom. Boom....

Once at my old job, we found out our janitor had been throwing away our recycling with the garbage. Shocked, we started telling people, and quite a few immediately responded with "Don't tell me that!" Why is our first course of action to protect our ignorance? As if doing something...

#35. John F. Kennedy Capo 4A, C, G, AThe CIA sent 1,500 Cubans to Cochinos BayExiles armed and ready to revenge of FidelAnd to mimick a natural uprisingDefeating Castro’s communizing waysAnd the deal was that the U.S. had their backsIf things would go awryAwry they went, but no one cameWhere...

Because in the process of rationalizing your own decision for smoking, you'll start to become more understanding of everyone else's bad decisions. On an unrelated note, go to church this weekend. And don't feel bad about going if you haven't been since Christmas, and you don't want to be the...

This is a tricky topic. Because self-awareness is a gift. I'm not exactly sure how much of it is natural, and how much can be learned, but we're going to try. You know those people in your lives that can just ramble on about their boring stories without taking a...

"So, are you celebrating the Seder meal tomorrow with your family?" "Uh, I'm not sure. I think Marcie might be hosting something..." "You're not excited? I thought you were an orthodox Jew?" "Nah, I'm more Jew-ish."

Freshman year of college, my roommate came home super-late one night and told me about a make-shift therapy session a bunch of our friends had. They all shared some of their biggest secrets, and at the time, I was pretty shocked. Thoughts of suicide. Huge regrets. Deep emotional scars. But,...

I remember a friend once told me how smart their father was in terms of theological understanding, and said "He always wanted to be a Pastor, but just didn't have enough compassion for people to make it. As if that were a natural stop point impossible to overcome. Now, I'm preaching to...

If you saw a poster for a band called "Jesus is My Girlfriend", what genre would you assume they were just by the name alone?

I'm pretty sure that the future of fashion has custom-tailored clothes sold on a mass level in store for it. So, what does that mean? To participate in this not yet invented market, you're going to need precise and detailed measurements of your frame. I see a universal scale being...