Archive for July, 2015

I’ll start with this; I’m a fairly intelligent guy. I think there are a lot of smart people who try to downplay it but I’m not one of those people. I’m certainly not at the level of renaissance man as Neil deGrasse Tyson, but I try to be. I read books on a lot of […]

Almost two years ago I wrote a post talking about how so many people are trying to attain perfection and feeling bad because they can’t get there. I said that while it’s great shooting for it, that believing it can ever be reached and then maintained is an unrealistic goal. David Clow via Compfight I […]

Every once in a while I get to thinking that it’s time to make certain types of changes in my life. Sometimes they’re personal changes; sometimes they’re professional changes. I’m sure I’m not alone in this thought. melizards via Compfight What happens when you get to a point when you feel there’s nothing to lose? […]

Is it a question of privilege? That’s what I find myself asking sometimes when I see someone who, even if they’re not rich and don’t have the easiest of lives, complaining that someone worse off than them is getting something that, in their minds, they don’t deserve. karlhans via Compfight Last night it was someone […]

By now we all know at least a little something about what’s going on in Greece. To do a quick synopsis, the country is pretty much days away from defaulting on their debt, being tossed out of the Eurozone, and having to start from scratch with their own currency, which would be worthless pretty much […]