I have advanced degrees and a rather solid and upwardly-mobile career path. I’m very lucky. I make pretty good coin. In the past twenty years, there have been seven-or-so times when I either took a second job, or a third job.  When my missus’ job left town without her, as well as some other times […]

A couple months ago, I tried to broach the lessons of a politicized thinker in a non-political way. I want to try that again, but at the other end of the political spectrum. Today at Nate Bransford’s place he had a post asking if creative people are really all that rare. My answer is contingent […]

I’ve been very emotional this week. I’m sure it’s the grey, cold weather wearing on my psyche. I’ve been listening to weepy, Celtic music. I’ve been reading depressing books. I’ve been taking inventory of where my life is and where I want it to be. Stasis is killing me. I got to hang out with […]

This story pops up from time to time. A computer algorithm can predict the commercial success of a novel. That’s a bit of an overstatement. A stretch for simplification. (Ironically, this is an article that could have been seventy-five percent shorter and still delivered the important payload. But okay. The writer had to turn in […]

The latest pharmaceutical libido enhancer for women has been (waaaaait for it… waaaaait for it…) cockblocked by the FDA for the eleventy-seventh time. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/female-libido-drug-remains-limbo As it turns out the $350 million dollar study was wildly successful until blind studies revealed that women were not turned on by the drug, but rather their proximity to $350 […]