Episodes Of Stress
When I was a teenager, the episodes of stress over trying to make proper decisions and to live well were always cleanly subdivided one from the other with stretches of calm between them, but now these moments are always going on all at once and no problem ends without another rising up.
Virtue And Cowardice
The line between virtue and cowardice is often so hard to draw.
The Interest In Sports
Considering the intense interest people have in sports teams, I thought the other day that the passion for one’s hometeam might be a means of finding self-worth externally by identifying yourself with the successes of something greater than you. Then I realized there are Red Sox fans.
Natural Selection
If he dies, he was weak and not fit for survival. What is meant to survive does survive. Alright. I’ll agree to this proposition if you let me come out and beat you over the head with a lead pipe to see if you’re weak. After all, lead pipes are perfectly valid instruments of natural [...]
Poor, Though Not Quite Vile, Prose
DULLSVILE i told you people this board would be boring with out jack around. Thanx a lot. Way to misspell Dullsville. Again, we have one of those suggestive misspellings that you might misinterpret as clever if you gave these people the benefit of the doubt, which they don’t generally deserve.