And now, let’s review last week’s Friday Challenge.
Here’s the argument:
Columnist: While it is undeniably true that NBC’s new Parks and Recreation is full of hilarious hijinks and madcap fun, it is destined to remain second to The Office in overall quality of writing, character development, and viewership. After all, Parks relies too heavily on zanily [...]
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Hilarious Hijinks and Madcap Fun
This week’s Friday Challenge. Enjoy!
Columnist: While it is undeniably true that NBC’s new Parks and Recreation is full of hilarious hijinks and madcap fun, it is destined to remain second to The Office in overall quality of writing, character development, and viewership. After all, Parks relies too heavily on zanily improbable one-liners. Thus, it will [...]
Ah, Yes. Gins-and-Tonic Are Delicious.
About a month ago, in a posting entitled “How To Do the Impossible,” I made an argument.
I argued that playing a game of chess in 5 minutes, or solving a Rubik’s cube in a very few seconds, or catching a ball midflight are all nearly-unbelievable feats made possible by our human ability for pattern-recognition, and [...]
There Are Three R’s in “Error,” Too
Ah, yes, the American public education system. The sound of those syllables in proximity to one another is like the babbling of a peaceful brook, gurgling serenely along beside an open meadow in which fat cows munch lovingly at slender shoots of swaying succulents under a cloudless sky the color of your mother’s eyes. All [...]
The Phantom Proportion
…in order to have the requisite “skills” to appear as a guest on a VH-1 show, you have to be willing to debase yourself…
Of God and the Bambalacha
So, I was thinking about the problem of evil (and by this I do not mean “the problematic fact that evil is sometimes done to people and/or animals and/or the only habitable planet in our solar system,” nor am I referring to “the problems caused to me, personally, by evil, such as: being mugged; having [...]
