Someone once said that “still waters run deep.” I don’t know who this person was or what this person did for a living. The person who made this statement may have been simply stating the obvious fact that deep rivers don’t make as much noise as shallow currents. Or, as philosophy majors like to p…

Yesterday on my way to work I experienced an incident involving a phenomenon known as “road rage.” In a nutshell, I changed lanes, another driver felt that I cut him off, he honked at me, I raised my hand up apologetically, he continued to honk and made hand gestures that mocked my raised hand, I f…

Socially, there are essentially two groups of people in America, with each group having its own distinct members and characteristics. For now, we’ll call these groups Group A and Group B. In the beginning (2003), there was Friendster.com. Yuppies, educated people, Asians, and other socially con…

I have two television sets. Considering that I’m a single dude who lives alone, this is one more television set than common sense would dictate to be necessary. Normally, this is true, except for Sundays in the fall and winter where two televisions are not enough. It’s generally impossible to watc…

I watched a sitcom on the television the other night. Although I had never seen this sitcom before, I definitely had seen this sitcom before. It followed the cookie-cutter family sitcom formula of a boneheaded dad, semi-hot mother, and their zany kids (a la The Simpsons, According to Jim, George L…