Consider the businesses that close shop in observance of September 11th. What would these business owners decide to do in the event that another terrorist attack took place on a different day in the future? And then another attack, and another? What if attacks with death tolls in the mid 50s occurred bi-weekly on average….
“No, I’m not going to tell you the dollar amount because as Americans we’ve been conditioned to interpret the earnings of others in a competitive fashion.”
There’s a lot of effort on the part of some juveniles to fabricate fake IDs for purposes of buying things, or gaining entrance to events, which are reserved for adults. I question whether this is actually the best route to take. I would imagine that the negative consequences resulting from exposure of counterfeit ID fabrication…
One night, as I was trying to fall asleep, I thought about the stand up comedian life. I came up with some brief material: Career choice – “you get paid to make people laugh?” “no, no, it’s not like that. It isn’t nearly so glorious. They laugh AT me. I get paid in compensation for…
While I was on the Boston campus I was often witness to empty cars parked near campus buildings with distress lights blinking. It’s tempting to believe that this was a precautionary measure taken by the driver to indicate to the university police that “yes officer, I know I’m parked illegally but as you can see…
What I’m writing about here are these kinds of things: Chevy: like a rock Taco Bell: think outside the bun State Farm Insurance: like a good neighbor, state farm is there My favorite: Hilton: it happens at the Hilton The board of directors at Hilton Inc. have managed to insinuate, in an extremely innocent manner,…
The couples that form, the people who get married, this pairing up often occurs as a consequence of circumstance. After numerous girlfriends, he may say that the one he is currently dating is the one, when really, the reason he’s going to marry her is more because he’s almost 30 and time is running out…
One issue condom advocates tactfully avoid is how people are born. If you ever want to have kids, you have to remove the rubber. I very much would like to talk with the people in safe sex advertisements. I would tell them calmly that, by definition of their existence, their parents had {brace yourself} unprotected…
Why are laundromats and showers married to each other? Commercially speaking, they are usually found together. It makes some sense: you clean your clothes you clean yourself. They ought to install a 3 compartment sink for dishes, a car wash, and provide free toothbrushes with complimentary toothpaste.
Some pesticides may have more than one purpose. To kill living things is usually the primary objective, but slowing the growth of the grass may not be far behind. Grass that grows slowly demands less frequent landscaping cutting, thereby lessening the cost of maintenance. I suppose both of these objectives of pesticides, to kill and…