“We come from dust; we return to dust.”

In response to this story (“‘Pet crematorium’ complaint leads to Pentagon change”):
The government sure takes quick action when there are complaints about honoring the dead, but they don’t act very quickly when handling matters concerning the living.
Is anyone aware the process of cremating a body consists of putting it into a furnace until only bone [...]

The Eighth Deadly Sin

I committed a crime today.
I wrote one and a half pages in a Microsoft Word document and didn’t save once.  Upon exit, I instinctively clicked “Don’t Save” (why it was instinctive I’ll never know).
Along time ago I vowed that this would never happen – I’d say around fifth grade, when I recognized that only a [...]

Who is T.W. Jackson?

I saw this ad on Facebook and it was like, “Get your ex back now!”. I’ll admit it made me curious. So I clicked.
http://www.getyourexbacknow.com/just_break_up3.html
If you want to see for your self, go to that link. It’s some self-help guru named T.W. Jackson that claims to have the magic touch in relationships, and [...]

Social networking: the less you know people, the more they care.

I changed my Facebook status to “Abe is siiiick…”. Within five minutes I got a wall post from an old friend who, in the grand scheme of things, I don’t know that well. It said, “ I hope you feel better Abe:(“.
This is curious. I don’t expect anyone to express their [...]

Pondering the importance of our existence

On Saturday night, I watched a special on the History Channel entitled “Life After Humans”. It proposed theories as to what would happen to man-made objects 25 years to 10,000 years after humans had vanished from the Earth (although due to what circumstances, I’m not sure – I missed the first ten minutes or [...]