Why are men so advanced? It’s the ‘Y’
Men are evolving faster than women. Hey, I’m not making this up. It’s science. Personally, I think there’s plenty of evidence to support this. I suspect, for example, that the new dip-and-drive ketchup tubs were invented by a guy with our advancing chromosomes. More on those and other great guy inventions later. Chromosomes, as you would know from biology class had you not been reading the copy of Spider-Man you sneaked inside your notebook, are teeny tiny squiggles inside of cells that determine if a baby will grow up to be a dork. (It was a good issue of Spider-Man, wasn’t it?) No, wait, I remember now. Chromosomes come in pairs and determine a person’s gender. We each have an X chromosome. Girls have a second X while boys have a Y. One of my biology teachers said, ‘‘See, women are perfectly balanced, neat and harmonious. Then one day, a leg of one chromosome snapped off, collapsing all symmetry and sense, and that’s how men were created.’’ My biology teacher was bitte.
» Full StoryWinter freezes tunes in brain
The winter doldrums tax us with a multitude of ailments — blahs, colds, flu, cold pale skin that would cheer considerably if flown to Florida, etc.
But perhaps the worst disease is the song that lodges in our heads and won’t leave.
Hang up, my pocket’s on hold
I have a growing collection of photos of the inside of my pants pocket.
I don’t mean to. It’s one of those technology things.
I carry a cell phone in the pocket along my left leg.
Whatfore is the sense in The Bard’s language?
Whyfore didn’t I know?
And howfore did I get involved? The error in fact — if, in factfore it was an error — was printed on another news site in another state.
Turn the page – if there is one
I am writing a book. As are about 80 percent of the people I know, so that’s not the unusual part.
» Full Story‘You see, but you do not observe’
I was talking to my wife on the phone when the woman walked in.
‘‘Wow!’’ I exclaimed. ‘‘Chris changed her hair. She looks great!’’
Ugh! How could I have been so stupid? I noticed something.










