FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol. 2, Number 3 02/04/11 PROMISES, PROMISES It has been said that promises are made to be broken. This is most often said by people with only a rudimentary understanding of what one means by the word: “promise”. So let’s take a look at the word. If we break down the etymology of the promise we have the first part – prom – which is taken from the ancient Greek – “pro-em”. Proem was a word ancient Greeks used to denote a dance or party for horny young people which included a great deal of revelry and drinking and eating all with the intent of …
FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 2 NUMBER 2 01/26/11 The History of Mankind In today’s blog I shall visit a subject that we will need to revisit throughout the year – the History of Mankind – A Study in Stupidity. We’ll look at various time periods in our history and how stupid we were at every turn and at the creation of what are now accepted practices, customs and mores regardless of the idiocy that caused the creation and continued practice of them. We shall also, at times, look at historical movements and significant events in our world paying particular attention to any number of WTF moments. Let …
FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 2 #1 HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND NEWSBITS. There are medicines for every disease known and unknown being advertised on television these days and one wonders if the FDA is paying any attention. Most of the wonder drugs we allegedly need to be taking have side effects worse than the disease we’re hoping to cure. VO: Are you suffering from Normalitis? Many Americans are and the sad thing is, they don’t even know it. If you ever feel happy or sad, melancholy or ebullient; if you’ve ever been hungry or full, or sort of a little peckish and then kind of uninterested in food; if you’ve …
FOR THE HELL OF IT #3 12/31/10 The last day of the year! The third blog of the year! Fortunately, like you, I can contain my excitement. It’s been pointed out to me that I missed some significant stories in my last blog so I shall return to the subject of peering at some of the stories that caught our attention in 2010. Understand that not all the musings here will be about the major stories – just the ones I feel like chatting about. So here goes. 1. Airport Security. Underwear bombs. Shoe bombs. Breast milk container bombs… We sure have a lot of terrorist nutters looking for inventive …
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