People often smugly use the term "common sense" to belittle people and make themselves feel better. "Ha! That's common sense, that person is an idiot for not knowing it!" But perhaps some tidbits of knowledge aren't as common as some people think. Everyone probably has a set of things that they think should be "common…
A typical political spectrum has conservatives on one side and liberals on the other. Usually, most people would congregate somewhere near the middle of this spectrum, with only a few people on the far ends. Over time, however, there can exist cases where people start to form niche groups on either side, and thus political…
For something to be "free" means that it comes without cost. If someone is "free", then they have control over their choices and actions. For someone to be "forced" means that they no longer have control over their choices. The terms are inherently opposite, and yet we sometimes confuse them. In America, we like to…
A friend and I were reminiscing about college one time, and of course since we were both engineers the topic quickly got to what was the worst we had ever done on a test. He joked that whenever he or his friends got close to a 50% on a test they would reassure each other…
I've recently been doing some research on Social Security in the US and the findings have been troubling. With the Baby Boomer generation reaching retirement age, the government is spending over 24% of its budget on social security (defense is 18%, for comparison), and the national debt is not getting any better. If the US…
I haven't been too thrilled about the current state of political affairs in America, and so I felt morally obligated to throw my hat in the race for the upcoming election. So you're telling me there's a chance...
When you really look at it, the fact that gyms exist really shows how we have progressed technologically as a society, but regressed physically. If we were able to get sufficient exercise in our daily lives, then we wouldn't need gyms. But we don't get sufficient exercise (well, many of us don't, myself included), so we do,…