Taking Dad's Advice

When I was getting my driver's license, my father tried to give a short lecture on car maintenance. He said one sentence that still bugs me: There's one ...

An April Fools Day Gag

So, where's spaghetti come from, anyway? Would you believe a spaghetti farm?!

Maybe you wouldn't believe it, but many did. Just ask the thousands of Englishmen ...

A Deadly Game at Chernobyl

The Winter 1991 issue of the University of Pacific Review offers a chilling description of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster:

There were two electrical ...

Pay Attention to the Designer

I bought a video camera about a year ago. I'd used it for about ten minutes, then recharged it. I later learned that you should not recharge the battery ...

Figuring Out Providence

I get a little weary of these dear souls who have all the dealing and doing of Providence catalogued and correlated and figured out and can give you glib ...

Good Friday and April Fools

There is a strange irony to the 1994 calendar. This Friday is called Good Friday because it marks the anniversary of Jesus' death. But this Friday is ...

How to Become a Dunce

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows of it.

Unstable Decisions

When the fear of God is gone, the decisions of daily life are threatened.

Cool Addicts

Everybody knows that TV is mostly false and stupid, that almost no one pays that much attention to it--and yet it's on for over seven hours a day ...

Our Circuitous World View

The production of art and entertainment for commercial reasons is an old story; what may be new is the elevation of this practice into a principle, and ...