culture and society
Does Good Luck Believe In You?
Some people say you make your own luck. My grandmother disagreed. She said what you make is effort and the more effort you make, the luckier you'll be.
Is It Treasure Or Trivia?
The dictionary defines treasure as anything valuable and trivia as unimportant matters. However, what's unimportant to some is valuable to others.
Is Truth Still Stranger Than Fiction?
If you have to read something twice it qualifies as being stranger than fiction.
Is It Music To Your Ears?
Music is like frosting on the cake of life. Not everyone likes the same kind of music, but - hard as it os to believe - not everyone likes chocolate cake.
What Could You Do Without?
The U.S. is one of the world's richest countries. We have everything money can buy plus the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Nevertheless, aren't there some things we could do without?
Does Charity Really Begin At Home?
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but charity makes the heart grow fonder of home and lots of other things.
Who Put The Toil In Toilets?
The next time we complain about toilets we should remember that 40% of the world's population doesn't have access to toilets.
What's New In Who Knew?
Because the internet greatly increases the amount of available information, what's new isn't new as long.
Does A Right Cause A Rightabout-face?
The U.S. Bill of Rights protects many freedoms. It's appropriately called a bill because some of those freedoms came at great cost.
What Would We Do Without Words?
"A speech, sound, or series of such sounds, having meaning as a unit of language" - it seems to take a lot of words to define what a word is.