If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of beliefs and a lifestyle that adheres to this lack of belief? NO, IT...

Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can’t get off, because of their arthritis.

What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.

When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that’s because I don’t eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend...

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

I’ve never seen Salisbury steak on a restaurant menu. It’s only in frozen dinners. Is there something we should know about that? What IS Salisbury steak anyway? And where do they hunt or harvest the...

That’s like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who wants to be ethical, evolved, yet not at all an oil pan for...

Real connection (and if it’s LOVE, then real love)–goes beyond those not-so-perfect and superficial and idiosyncratic things that simply make us individuals. The trust and longevity of a relationship between two individuals is established through...

One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and never will serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits...

Regarding Christians who feel they have a free pass on being criticized; When the blind worship of an invisible being and the doctrine of millennia-old texts written by ignorant men in another country becomes more...

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society, and morality is an evolutionary adaptation. Period.

These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports…they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them…that’s not facing your fear, that’s embracing your stupidity.

You’re only responsible for being honest, not for someone else’s reaction to your honesty.

I am overweight. But to me, it’s fat. I don’t have Body Dysmorphic Disorder. When I look in the mirror I don’t plunge into a depression and stick my finger down my throat or carve...

Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it’s covered by so much dirt that it’s a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.

Sully’s, on South Prospect, was the quintessential biker-bar, complete with hefty, leather-clad Harley worshippers, and stringy-haired heroin-addicted women who made the rounds among the bikers. Its décor was decidedly Medieval Garage Sale, with a dose...

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It’s really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world....