There are many indicators of success. Some people find personal satisfaction in earning a certain salary, others enjoy holding a professional title, and still others seek fulfillment through the trappings of fame. Perhaps you are an expert in a field, or well-known among avid hobbyists who share your passion, or your home renovations were featured [...]

You know in the movies when some evil businessman is trying to take over the old family store by slick-palming the founder’s son and trying to convince him that he’d be better off using his family’s wealth to enjoy some sun and sand, rather than mucking around with the old work mules? Meanwhile, when the [...]

“Superficial stuff turns you off more than usual, and you want to see down to the core of everything and everyone around you. It’s time for you to strip away the layers of illusion.”
(astrology.yahoo.com)
No, it’s time for you to strip away the layers of illusion.
Slower…slower….I want to see down to the core, but not all [...]

Stan Berenstain, Co-Creator of Those Fuzzy Bears, Dies at 82
“The Berenstain Bears hail from the mythical land of Bear Country and for more than a generation have helped children just shy of reading age glimpse the connection between stories and pictures, both of which the human Berenstains amply provided. As children matured, the books [...]

Clown Coffee and I have a fun game we like to play. We take snippets of my President’s speeches and/or responses to questions from the White House press pool, and we try to formulate the question that he seems to be answering that was obviously never asked.
Here are a few examples:
[Question that was never asked: [...]

I just took an on-line Meyers-Briggs personality test. I was hoping it would tell me what to do with my life, and in particular was hoping it would suggest either werewolf or vampire, as those seem like pretty good ways to meet people, feed, and cheat death. Anyway, the whole “trying to put my life [...]

Longer Needles Needed for Fatter Buttocks
(Reuters)
I was going to just leave it at the headline. Look at the headline again.
I said look at it again, I will wait.
You really don’t need any kind of embellishment. That pearl of journalistic prose says it all. But then I saw THIS!:
“Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle [...]

When you schedule a meeting for 11, I expect that meeting to begin at 11. Maybe 11:03. I will give you three minutes to gather the necessary people and begin the meeting. Do not have me come to the meeting and wait for ten minutes. Not just because I could be reading the internet, but [...]

I wake up relatively early, at least compared to the majority of my aimless alcoholic peers, but this morning when I went downstairs to make my morning meal I espied through the window two people not only up, but dressed (in a fashion). They were those kinds of people who run. YUCK. GO TO BED, [...]