What causes people to be arrogant?
Do we think that our skills and abilities are our own? Are they things we created for ourselves at birth for the improvement of ourselves? And what causes us to suppose that we are better than other people?
It seems to me that the root of arrogance lies in pride. “Look [...]
I’m convinced that the writers of 24 believe that everyone is stupid, impulsive, and unable to follow the directions of their superiors. I’m also convinced that they believe the best (and most entertaining) way to solve crimes is to go at it alone but win in the end.
And for some dumb reason, I’m still persuaded [...]
I saw a huge yellow sticker on the dash of a BMW X3 this afternoon. I’ve seen the X3 around my apartment complex for several months now, but this was the first time that I acutally gazed into the inside. It was interesting to see this beautiful car with a hideous sticker on the dash.
The [...]
I know that I normally spew vitriolic comments about the state of summer in Houston, but summer does bring one (at least one) great thing: Fresh Fruit. I walked though HEB yesterday to a cornucopia of delicious fresh fruit: nectarines, peaches, plums, cherries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, watermelon, cantaloupe, and more.
I stopped and imbibed the sight [...]
Have you seen the new Liberty Mutual commercials? I saw one a few mintues ago that is easily on of the best commercials I’ve seen in recent history.
You can see it here…just scroll down the page a little bit and hit the play button.
From AutoBlog: Woman finds that dead body is the source of her steering problems.
A young woman from Ecourse, MI was driving through Detroit at about 1AM on Friday morning when she noticed that something was wrong with the way her car was handling. The teenaged driver pulled over into a nearby service station, thinking that [...]
Every word is important. Words change the meaning, if only minutely, of what you are saying. I know this sounds obvious, but I don’t think we actually consider how important the details of our speech really are.
My parents just spent a few days at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort. They came back raving about the [...]
Misery. Grief. Sadness. All over a complete collapse.
Of course, I saw the writing on the wall after game 5; any time that a team resorts to kicking the ball, punching things in the locker room, expletives, blaming the refs, questioning the calls, and falling into a pattern of anger—it’s over.
Blaming the officials is never a [...]
I saw this very person at the wedding I attended on Saturday…so I thought I’d enshrine it in a cartoon. Enjoy.
It’s been raining in Houston lately. It’s been raining a lot. The bayous are flowing like roaring rapids and the streets are turning into mini-reservoirs.
It’s been dry in Houston this year. Only within the last few months has we started to catch up on the rainfall. Elsewhere in Texas drought rages on. But here we [...]