The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be...
At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be car...
…It usually starts innocently enough, a friend remarking to you that the co-op has a nice new crop of grapefruit. Hmm, I don’t really care for grapefruit myself, you say, entirely without malice. She...