Down Hearted in the Heart of NY
I am incredibly depressed right now. I'm not sure exactly why, but the weather is likely to be a big part of it. As I have aged I have discovered…
What Price Success?
What does it mean to be successful? From a biologists point of view it means to live long enough to successfully reproduce. For a species it means having enough…
Stand Behind Elephant, Insert Head.
Big story on CNN this morning, "U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann surfs a wave of attention coming off the Ames Straw Poll". She beat Ron Paul by a handful of votes.…
What Happened to Obama?
The president is fond of referring to "the arc of history," paraphrasing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous statement that "the arc of the moral universe is long,…
The Flowers of Madness
Written by David Glen Cox It is a time of bad Ju ju, that moment when nausea sets in. When it's no longer a question of if, but of when.…