This evening I watched President Obama address the nation with regards to the debt ceiling controversy that has been raging in DC and beyond for a few months now. I also watched Speaker Boehner’s response to President. Both men made it clear that it’s the opposing party’s inability to compromise that is “holding the economy [...]
There’s been a case of the break-ups going around lately, although when you’re lucky enough to have as many friends as I do, somebody is always on their way into a relationship, somebody is always on their way out – and those in the middle are typically wishing they were experiencing one or the other.
I [...]
There are three forms of knowledge in this world. That which we know, that which we realize we don’t know, and that which we don’t even know we don’t know. It is the third realm, that which we don’t know we don’t know that is the largest of the three. For all the information we [...]
At the start of the new year, I discovered I had a cavity in one of my wisdom teeth, and after meeting with an oral surgeon, decided it was best to have all four of my wisdom teeth removed. As luck would have it, they had an opening two days later and so before I [...]
On our second to last day in Ireland, my father and I negotiated the Ireland busing system, and purchased two tickets to Ardee, a small village about an hour and a half north of Dublin. The bus would apparently stop a five minute walk outside of the main town – and another bus would [...]
When I was a freshman in high school I began making a lot of observations and conjectures about what was actually going on here. While most boys my age had girls on the mind – I became obsessed with the nature of reality. I had become a devout atheist in middle school, but being unsatisfied [...]
This week Apple announced their highly anticipated iPad – a revolutionary new device that creates an entirely new category someplace between the laptop and smart-phone. While the media and pundits may have been more focused on the name – my mind has been on fire the past three days thinking of nothing but the [...]
On Christmas morning I saw a Facebook post from my cousin regarding a video game called Braid. As it is rare to see any female make a post about a fun video game – I decided to check it out. The write-up seemed interesting and the graphics beautiful – so I dropped the $10 and [...]
These are things the elderly woman sitting beside me on my 3.5 hour flight from Houston (a stop-over on my flight from Philadelphia) told me. I won’t bother to detail which points I agree with or disagree with. The point of this exercise is that we are all bat-shit crazy, and should probably just learn [...]
