All about me

I believe in limited government, so I may be a rightwing terrorist, and I have the certificate to prove it! If you want your own certificate, go to reasononline, and take the short quiz yourself.

I always thought I was quite the clever one for coming up with the procrastinator's credo: Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. But of course Mark Twain said it first.

l still think I can offer an example of procrastination that it will be hard to top. I'm getting money back from the IRS this year -- not a king's ransom, but a tidy sum by my standards. I have known since the end of last year that I would be getting this money just as soon as I did my taxes and sent them in.

I've always thought it would be interesting to visit Vietnam as a tourist. Strange and unsettling, maybe, but interesting. I can't imagine what it took for John McCain to go back to the Hanoi Hilton:

He pointed to another tiny cell -- about 6 feet by 3 feet (1.8 meters by 0.9 meters) -- with nothing more than a bed frame with no mattress, just a straw mat. He told his colleagues it looked much like the one in which he was held.

Omigod, no wonder I just freaked out!

Tuesday morning at 11:45am is the most stressful time of the working week, according to a survey.

Researchers found that nearly half of British workers identified mid-morning on their second working day of the week as the moment when they were most under pressure.

Researchers experimenting with a new drug have been able to erase certain memories. While it might be nice to forget certain traumatic events, what about the ethical implications of, say, removing the memory of a crime?

The headline on the story is "Getting older but working longer." No kidding:

For many years, the average retirement age for men had fallen through much of the 20th century.

“By the mid-1980s, it had dropped down to 62 or 63 and stayed there for 20 years or so.”

Those sinners in Indianapolis are on their way to being saved after saying their Earth Hour prayer at the global-warming altar:

The lights at the shop and some other locations in the city went out at 8:30 p.m. and stayed out for an hour. Sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, the same observance was planned for the same local times around the globe.

At the shop, candles lit the room, and the lights-out participants expressed dedication.

As someone with two cats that frequently decide to chase each other through my legs while I'm trying to walk up or down the stairs, I don't think this figure is exaggerated:

People are always falling for their pets. Apparently, some are falling over them, too.

I agree with Mike Pence on a lot of issues. This isn't one of them:

So, I've gotten drunk and stupid once or twice in my life. But there weren't that many witnesses, and none of the people involved have written books about the incidents so far as I know, so my indiscretions have been allowed to dissolve into the mists of time. They haven't haunted the rest of my life. There was this one time, for example, when a bunch of us who were stationed at Fort Hood started drinking on Friday night in San Antonio and somehow ended up in a motel room in Mexico . . . but let's not ruin a good memory.