Observations

"Different people prefer different jobs." That's the prevailing theory regarding people's job preferences. And as far as I'm concerned, that prevailing theory is pure hogwash! Yeah. That's right. I said it. I used the PH word. Pure hogwash. I'm a keen observer of human nature. I bring some serious, high grade keenness into the equation. And I can state with complete certitude that men do not have different job preferences! There is no diversity whatsoever when it comes to this. All men want one job, and one job only: the job of Miami-based drug dealer. If you have any doubts regarding the veracity of that statement, I invite you to conduct the following experiment: get a bunch of men in a room with a TV and Blu Ray player, and start playing the movie Scarface . The men will all be mesmerized by this movie--and over the next 96 hours, they will all go very far in emulating an individual by the name of Tony Montana. I am not making this up! This is an easily...

I'm not so sure I'm too fond of this Amazon.com thing. After all, it's a website that floods you with some truly barbaric and deranged reading material known as Amazon customer reviews. Who the heck wants to read that kind of stuff?! I mean, all Amazon customer reviews are written by people who are mentally unstable. Each one should make you feel compelled to head on over to a Zoloft bottle and ingest several hundred milligrams.  No one has ever said anything remotely sane in an Amazon customer review. The site has been around for two and a half decades, it's attracted hundreds of millions of reviews, and we're all just sitting in front of our computers with our popcorn, waiting to encounter one review that shows some semblance of rational thought. Here's an Amazon review for Dixon-Ticonderoga pencils. "I'm a teacher, and so I know first hand the important quality difference between good pencils (like Ticonderoga) and cheap knock-offs. Although the gra...

CSPAN claims to show you political proceedings that are 100% unfiltered. But it sure does seem like they do their fair share of filtering--doesn't it? Whenever you watch CSPAN, you get the impression that they filter out all the highlights, and they only show you the extremely dull parts. They must. After all--no one has ever come across anything even slightly interesting on that channel. You watch it for two hours straight, and the most interesting part is some boring retort that the gentlewoman from Arkansas made in response to the even more boring remarks made previously by the gentleman from Florida. That's CSPAN. And then there's CSPAN 2, which utilizes an entirely different approach, and focuses on assaulting you with massive amounts of a show called Book TV. The people running CSPAN 2 adamantly believe that every day is a suitable day for a Book TV marathon. As if we're all sitting at home thinking, "Gosh. You know what would really hit the spot right now? M...