Tuesday, January 17, 2006

It Kept Me Up Last Night

Just a couple of thoughts that have been bugging me...

Isn't it just special that to be right in this country one needs only to be in the majority?

They say that utopia is impossible, but they're wrong. Utopia is just a place or state of ideal perfection. At any given time someone somewhere fits this mold, a good deal of people actually. (Hell, the CEO of Yahoo made 150 million last year.) The reason most "utopias" fail is that they look towards communal existence instead of personal fulfillment.

People tend to drift towards those more attractive than they are. Besides, how many people do you know that date/marry those less attractive than themselves? (Those that do are the real catch.) If attractiveness is subjective how does society choose who is pretty and who isn't? If you can only be prettier or uglier than someone, then 50% of the people you meet are uglier and 50% are prettier than than you on average.

The most popular music in western society describes or personifies suffering.

What do you do if a cop cuts you off in traffic?

Democracy is a selfless act, half the time to the majority and all the time to the minority.

The strongest candidate for the Democratic Party in 2008 is Al Gore.

Politics makes up the largest part of how I judge people. For me, it is my greatest insight into their character. Then why the hell are so many of my friends further to the right than me?

When flipping a coin always pick heads. The tails side is slightly heavier and will fall downwards slightly more often than heads will.

True all countries have racism, classism, sexism, etc. At least in this country we are all equal on paper. That way we're half way there.

A smile is the greatest aphrodisiac. If you not getting any, show some teeth.

If the scale on the map is 1:47,000,000 and I lined up 47,000,000 of them in a square, would I cover the earth? If I lined up every every page of every copy of the Boston Globe tomorrow would I accomplish the same?

The greatest thinkers, musicians, comedians, performers of our time have (on a whole) a past exploration of psychedelic drugs.

More than 50% of all prescriptions written for Prozac and Ritilin are for questionable cases. Allergy drugs are even higher.

Whoever the first person to eat a pineapple was, I bet it was on a dare.

As Americans we preach democracy abroad yet quell it at home in the process.

Just know that when you begin to smell yourself, you've been stinking up everything else for far too long.

The largest consumer of lettuce in the United States is McDonald's.

So long as we're satisfied with gas priced coming back down to a balmy $2.25/gal the oil companies are going to win.

Why did Exxon-Mobil make 9 billion dollar profit last quarter? (P.s. there are four quarters in a year.)

Someone please name a country that we're not angry with. Please?

Someone please name a country who's people aren't angry with the U.S. government. Please?

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe six billion people worldwide are right and half of our country is wrong?

The greatest music never reaches No. 1.

I bet I can give you a dozen songs that you would directly relate to lighting up.

Who can put Humpty-Dumpty together again?

A great portion of health problems in this country are created by obesity and smoking, both completely preventable.

Who picked 60 watts as the standard level of indoor lighting?

The sky isn't blue, the ocean is. Or was it the other way around?

Porn makes up approximately 27% of the internet.

Just a testament to how simple the human mind really is, the most popular street name in the United States is Main St.

Time moves slower below sea level than it does above it. (Gravity is infinitesimally stronger.) Theoretically you'd live longer on Earth than on Mars.


More to come...

...some other time.

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