This morning I was reading the news: “Feminist PhD Candidate: Science Is Sexist Because It’s Not Subjective” “Women and minorities cannot understand logic or objective truths, says a graduate student in her dissertation, so science classes should stop using the scientific method.” Yes really. And no, it wasn’t published in The Onion. It was a […]
Archives for October 2016
Knowing where to tap
A story I thought you might find entertaining: After years of faithful service, the ship engine failed… and no one could figure out what was wrong with it. The company brought in all their new, brightest, most educated engineers. Nothing. Finally, one of the executives broke down and brought in a man with 40 yrs. […]
How to win the respect of your greatest enemy
When I was just a teenager (yup, even yours unruly was a teenager), I was dorky. I was unpopular. I wasn’t a lady’s man. I was everything the popular kids weren’t. And they teased me relentlessly. I was interested in art an music instead of sports, so I spent most of my time figuring out […]
Triple-down economics
It takes me thrice as long as a normal human to learn something. For some weird reason, I’m a glutton for punishment. Here’s what I mean. When I first started out in the finance biz, I was enthusiastic about whole life insurance, but… It was boring. I mean… the contract is a bunch of guarantees. […]
The secret of Tacconelli’s
I was watching this show on Netflix the other night… …and these two guys are traveling all over the U.S. checking out pizza joints. Anyway, they stop in Philadelphia to check out this place called Tacconelli’s. At first, they’re wondering what the big deal is. The sauce is just tomatoes, salt, sugar, and pepper. Nothing […]