Correlation does not imply causation. “Sleeping eight hours a day keeps you healthy and makes you healthy” is a good example of this type of causal fallacy. Studies show that the healthiest people sleep approximately 8 hours per day. I don’t argue with that. I do argue with the cum hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin [...]
I mentioned this in a previous post “First Novel in 10 Years” , about the potential paths of future human evolution, but I would like to put that into more perspective. The evolution of human life is not only exponential, but exponential exponential. That is, the rate of change is increasing at a faster and [...]
State of Fear, by Michael Crichton I have just finished the first novel I have read in…in I don’t know how long. In ten years or so. I generally just stick to non-fiction. Good books are hard to come by in The Philippines. Sure there are some good book stores in Manila, but there is [...]
There is one thing in life I never thought I could get enough of, and that’s vagina. However, people change, and apparently I’m one of those people, and I think I have had just about enough vagina. The Vagina Monologues are apparently some feminist inspired readings about some self-centered and gold-plated-pussy impressions that some local [...]
This will be a post in progress. I will add more as I think of them. 1. The middle name of a child born in The Philippines must be the maiden name of the mother.  As a result of this law I was not allowed to name my recently born son “Horace O’Donal Turner, [...]
Having recently, with the essential help of my lovely wife, brought a child into this World, I am beginning to think not so much about what the future will be like for me as the years unfold, but what the future will be like for my offspring. I want my son to grow up to [...]
In the area of Gingoog City, a 70-year old man apparently seduced a 29 year old, mentally handicapped virgin into having sex with him in the bush. The apparent spot they picked to consummate their lascivious act happened to be in the location of a colony of African Honey Bees. The woman ran nude back [...]
I blog because I can. I use WordPress, and it’s not the easiest blog publication software out there to use, but I have the tech infrastructure behind me to fix any and all problems I have. So, blogging for me is much like keeping a diary. If I have problems publishing something, I just IM [...]
In most of The Philippines there are two seasons, The Hot Season, and The Rainy Seaon. In North-Western Philippines there are often three distinct seasons; Winter from December through February which has dry, cool weather, Summer from March through May with dry, hot weather, and the Rainy Season from June through November marked by thunderstorms [...]
Much of the problem with The Philippines is one of history and geographics (I mean the lay of the land). As an archipelago of 7000 islands, the country was never unified prior to the Spanish arriving some 500 years ago. Before then, there was constant wars between island chiefdoms. Thus, there is no unified natural [...]