My Pops loves tuna. Guess he needs his minimum daily requirement of mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and various delicious toxins (pesticides, flame retardants and PCBs, just to name a few). Continue reading Anatomy of Bumbling Bee Chris Lischewski: How Corporate Arrogance, Malfeasance, Miscalculation and Conspiracy Led to the Worldwide Tuna Tragedy
Women and Children Should Be On The IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species
Women and children are the most neglected members of the human species, and should be on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Every day, thousands of women and children around the world are abused and neglected, maimed and murdered. Continue reading Women and Children Should Be On The IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species
Conventional Query Letters to Magazine Editors are Boring as Crap: A DYNAMIC Query Letter à la Tripsy
Conventional query letters to magazine editors are boring as crap. A great query should reflect who you are, not what convention tells you to be. My philosophy is simple: your rules do not apply to me; I have my own.
Don’t You Dare Call Me a Millennial
I’m in my early 20s, yes. A girl. Stand at an altitude of 6 feet, high enough to see over most men’s heads, but short enough to avoid low-slung obstacles. At 170 pounds, with medium bones and an athletic figure, guys don’t mess with me, mostly cuz they’ve seen me at MMA training sessions. Continue reading Don’t You Dare Call Me a Millennial
A Silly Paradox of Adulthood: Retirement
We spend two-thirds of our lives learning massive amounts of information, taking in vast knowledge, experiencing great things and developing wonderful memories.
Then, just at the point of “knowing it all,” we do something stupid: we quit (read: retire). Continue reading A Silly Paradox of Adulthood: Retirement
Nicotine Is Not Addictive. Yes, Really
You’re at work, it’s the middle of the day, and you want to crawl into bed and siesta for hours, even though you still have five pages left to write. There’s just no energy left, much less the concentration you need to conjure up 1,500 additional words. What to do?
A better question would be: What brought you to this dire state of affairs? Lack of daily exercise? Poor diet and overall health? Continue reading Nicotine Is Not Addictive. Yes, Really
Are Destiny and Free Will Mutually Exclusive?
Are destiny and free will mutually exclusive?
The short answer: no.
The long answer: both co-exist in your life, a paradox just waiting to be discovered.
How is this possible? Continue reading Are Destiny and Free Will Mutually Exclusive?
When Does 80% Equal 50%?
Never mind that Vifredo Pareto has been vilified as the dude who influenced Mussolini to further develop fascism. Put that aside for a sec. Please.
The guy—Pareto, not Mussolini—came up with a cool power law probability: the Pareto distribution, which mathematically described the income distribution of various people from different countries.
He discovered that, generally speaking, 20% of the people—the “elite”—had (read: stole, purloined, looted, absconded with) 80% of the wealth. Continue reading When Does 80% Equal 50%?
What Are YOUR Expectations?
“All disappointments are due to unexpressed communications or unfulfilled expectations.”
—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Let’s say you’re in a difficult job and the only thing keeping you there is the dream of a substantial raise.
What are your options to manifest that dream? Continue reading What Are YOUR Expectations?
Never Promise Anything
We Promised Mom We’d Never Do That Again, Didn’t We?
And the next day, we were at it again. After all, it was she who taught us to use the term in our own defense. All we had to do to avoid a spanking was to promise not to do “it” again, whatever it was.
So gullible, our moms.
Things aren’t too much different in adulthood, although we still make the same mistake of gifting promises we almost never keep.