I consider myself a smart guy.

I actively seek understanding and knowledge, and to that end, I read (a lot). I ask a lot of questions. I talk to a lot of people. I watch videos. I listen to talks. I try to pay attention to as much around me...

Last night, an amendment passed in North Carolina banning marriage for same-sex couples. Some people decry this as short-sighted at best, and completely bigoted, hateful, stupid, dumb, and unfair in general. I am one of those people, for all the reasons I outline here and here and

Yesterday, I was at the gym.

... Don't worry. This isn't a gym story. This is a story about a boy who needed to hear something important. But it happened at the gym. So that's why I started with the bit about being in the gym. If you were hoping...

So, with all the blah-de-blah and hoo-de-doo I've been posting about Occupy Wall St. (and the subsequent Occupy [insert city here] movement, which has reached over 1000 cities so far), I heard a ton of feedback. Most of it fell into the "I agree, people taking action always beats...

I think it's terrific... For the most part.



Yes, it's populated with scenesters who want nothing more than to have a conversation topic at the next hip party. Yes, it's populated with extremist youngsters who think that idealism and pachouli are enough to get anything...

Sometimes, my energy drinks bore me.

The trouble is, I've grown accustomed to how all of this stuff works, and my "cycles" are just getting boring. So I figured, why not have a little fun?

I drink Red...

With all the hubbub about privacy settings in Facebook lately, people have been going nuts! You've no doubt seen this message several times the past week:

There is absolutely nothing fun about air travel. From the second you arrive at the airport, you're being conditioned to be miserable. Lines of cars entering and exiting the various parking areas, all of which are overpriced. Random police officers on Segways and mountain bikes yelling at anyone...

Yesterday, I voiced a gripe on my blog about the inherent design flaws in modern breakfast cereal bags.

Some commenters on the blog, as well as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Huffington Post and Fark suggested that I'm a neanderthal and that my simian nature led...

It's 5:45 in the morning.

Or, maybe for you other, more sane people, something like 7:45, or 9:45, or if it was an exceptionally good weekend night, 1:45 in the afternoon. At any rate, the time isn't that important, except that it measures how long you've been awake, which in...