It’s a bad idea to take life too seriously. A really bad idea. If you do – take life too seriously – you will be severely and repeatedly disappointed. And that means you will be miserable. Don’t just take my word for it. Try it. Get emotionally invested in everything[…] Read On
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How Will History Judge Trump Derangement Syndrome?
After Election Day 2016 it was #NotMyPresident. Then came #Resist, #NeverTrump, #RussianCollusion, #MuellerReport and #Impeachment. Now it’s #RejectTheCoverup and #Impeached4Life. I’m sure I’ve missed a few hundred hashtags in between. Is anyone else sensing a trend? You know how doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different[…] Read On
The Lunatics are Running the Asylum. So What’s New?
Dear WebMD, What do you do when you wake up and suddenly realize you forgot to take your meds for three days straight? While you were out playing manic psycho dude you managed to royally screw up everyone’s weekend. Now the wife’s locked the bedroom door and no one else[…] Read On
The Oppression Delusion
Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You – Anon There’s growing evidence that we are turning college students into paranoid schizophrenics with delusions of persecution. And that can’t be good. A few minutes into a recent talk by noted scholar Heather Mac Donald at Holy[…] Read On
The Long-Term Effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has just released the results of a groundbreaking new study on the long-term effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). As health experts and researchers have long feared, there are a large number of secondary disorders associated with TDS, an epidemic that has gripped the[…] Read On
Snarkasm: How Can Anything That Feels So Right Be So Wrong?
The wife is getting sick of my snark. And who can blame her? Just like me, snarkasm doesn’t age well. It sort of gets on your nerves after a while. And thirty years is a pretty long while. But I ask you, how can anything that feels so right be[…] Read On
Success, Failure and Why Neither Is Predictive of the Future
Success is great; failure sucks. This is not a news flash. It’s also a fundamental truth, no matter what you’ve read on popular business sites. The question is, which of the two results should leaders fear most? Ironically, the answer is “success.” Nobody wants to fail, but we all[…] Read On