I was watching the show the Leftover’s and there is a scene where a cult member is stoned to death. It was brutal and I’m someone who is normally unaffected by these things. …

As we are in the midst of lottery fever again and I would like to capitalize on the free hype I have chosen to finally write this post. I occasionally play the Powerball. But since I like to think I am smarter than the average Powerball patron I tell myself…

Last night I received the news that my grandfather had died. He was my last living grandparent and the second to die in as many months. When I received the call I was watching the show Mad Men. After going for a walk I came back to finish the episode…

When I speak to my more idealistically minded friends they tell me that they vote for policies not because those policies will benefit them the most but because they will benefit society as a whole the most. …

I have over 14 years of lifting under my belt. I am a two time powerlifting state champ and a state record holder. This is a good summary of all lifting knowledge one needs to accomplish their fitness goals. I hope it is easy to follow and maybe a bit…

If you are not familiar with the Lindy effect here is a succinct summary from Wikipedia: The Lindy effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age. This phenomena is not mere…

In the present zeitgeist people think that a lack of suicide doors on your car would be a reason to commit suicide. In fact, the existence of suicide doors on your automobile is positively correlated with the chance of killing yourself. People see white men as the most privileged demographic…

I am a first world man temporarily banished to a third world land. I sit in the darkened city of New Orleans, disempowered to send an email or make coffee. I write to you on a half charged laptop, treasuring every minute of screen time I have left. When the…

History has shown that regardless of how regulators beg and beseech, persecute and prosecute, boards of directors will continue to engage in financial chicanery. The C-suite will always invent some new obscure financial instrument the regulators haven’t thought of yet. A game of cat and mouse where private enterprise is…