Things I Hate that are Green

Limes: Lemons’ uglier more bitter brothers. Limes taste pretty bad so they are only used to make something that tastes worse than a lime, taste as good as a lime. And, in that respect, it works for things like Margaritas and Mexican beer. Also, it keeps you from tasting the keys in a key-lime pie… […]

Auto Travel Tips

When traveling long distances make frequent stops and take frequent rests. The stops can be at a restaurant or a rest stop. If there isn’t a lot of traffic, one can take a quick nap behind the wheel between exits. Remember, if you dream about having an accident while sleeping behind the wheel, it might […]

Ask a Genetically-Modified, Bio-Engineered Superintelligent Dog Pt 9

Dear Genetically-Modified Bio-Engineered Super-Intelligent Dog, I’m a perfectionist and my daughter has never lived up to my expectations. I heard that perfectionism is a very bad way to raise a child so I asked her if I had ruined her life. She shrugged and said, “Maybe some”… so I can’t even do THAT right. What […]

Pubic Confession

A coworker I am fond of told me that she was having surgery, the next day. I didn’t ask any questions about it… not because I am an unfeeling sociopath (the usual reason), but because the probable answer was “vagina”. Yeah, it’s a jarring word. Men don’t like hearing it and women don’t like saying […]

The Middle Ages and What We Can Do About Them

The Middle Ages is often referred to as “The Dark Ages” because the lack of documentation from the period makes what happened to them seem fuzzy and incomplete, much like middle ages for the rest of us… Historians tend to set the beginning of the Dark Ages as coinciding with the fall of the Roman […]