Random Thoughts
Why do so many good candidates make such lousy office-holders? Are the traits necessary to win an election so different from those required to do the particular job?
Smoking is bad for you. Getting fat is bad for you. Quitting smoking makes me gain weight. Which is worse? Should we have to choose between cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other maladies associated with either condition? (yeah, I know....quit smoking and DON'T gain weight. Bite me!)
If the Christian god is merciful, why is "the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom"? What's to fear?
Does good medical care and a decent standard of living cause cancer? After all, if we only lived thirty to forty years, would cancer rates be as high? Or would we die before we developed it?
Same question with Alzheimer's...
I was at a Mexican restaurant tonight. The wait staff and owners are Mexican. The entertainment was a mariachi band playing Frank Sinatra standards. The NCAA tournament was on the TV in the corner. Is this the melting pot or a clash of cultures?
Why do Lunesta (sp) ads feature a moth that never sleeps?
Is normal normal anymore? Or do you have to be slightly neurotic to be considered normal in today's society?
If one human year is the equivalent of seven dog years, what are computer years?
Why are so many college mottoes in a language (Latin) that so few colleges even teach?
If terrestrial radio and TV signals are travelling out from the earth at the speed of light, what will alien life-forms think when they recieve Uncle Miltie and I Love Lucy? Not to mention Howard Stern?
What if we are the equivalent of germs in a petri dish...merely being studied under the cosmic microscope of (to us) unimaginable size? Would the experiment be a success?
Smoking is bad for you. Getting fat is bad for you. Quitting smoking makes me gain weight. Which is worse? Should we have to choose between cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other maladies associated with either condition? (yeah, I know....quit smoking and DON'T gain weight. Bite me!)
If the Christian god is merciful, why is "the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom"? What's to fear?
Does good medical care and a decent standard of living cause cancer? After all, if we only lived thirty to forty years, would cancer rates be as high? Or would we die before we developed it?
Same question with Alzheimer's...
I was at a Mexican restaurant tonight. The wait staff and owners are Mexican. The entertainment was a mariachi band playing Frank Sinatra standards. The NCAA tournament was on the TV in the corner. Is this the melting pot or a clash of cultures?
Why do Lunesta (sp) ads feature a moth that never sleeps?
Is normal normal anymore? Or do you have to be slightly neurotic to be considered normal in today's society?
If one human year is the equivalent of seven dog years, what are computer years?
Why are so many college mottoes in a language (Latin) that so few colleges even teach?
If terrestrial radio and TV signals are travelling out from the earth at the speed of light, what will alien life-forms think when they recieve Uncle Miltie and I Love Lucy? Not to mention Howard Stern?
What if we are the equivalent of germs in a petri dish...merely being studied under the cosmic microscope of (to us) unimaginable size? Would the experiment be a success?
posted by Just Some Guy on the Radio at 5:09 PM
2 Comments:
I was having a conversation about "normal" this morning with a friend. Overall normalcy is a difficult thing to establish. A normal "range" can easily be established within different categories... IQ, for example.
But overall "normal" would be hard to define. I'd say a very small minority of the population would actually fall within what is considered overall "normalcy."
Which makes the word NORMAL sort of ironic, doesn't it?
And what is "normal" in one arena (oh, say radio)would most certainly NOT be normal anywhere else. If you don't believe me, there's always Dillon as an example!
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