Category: IQ Test

There is an odd, unpleasant sort of person in the big bulge of the bell curve.  They  are not smart enough to get “intellectual” jobs and are too proud to do the sort of work that requires getting their hands dirty. Many of them find that they can make a living by selling scary lies […]

Rome dominated by putting labor-saving inventions of great magnitude to use.  Romans utilized labor-saving arches, aqueducts, factory farms, improved roads, apartment buildings, public baths, threshing machines, large transport vessels, and catapults more than other nations.  In every area of human endeavor,  Rome’s ability to put labor-saving ingenuity in place propelled them ahead of their more […]

June 3, 2012  The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Reading 1 Dt 4:32-34, 39-40 Moses said (is still saying) to the people (who will be saved): “Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did […]

Pensees was published 6 or 7 years after Pascal died,in 1662.  Twenty years after the first publications, Pensees was translated into English.  The book was a record of Pascal’s thoughts.  Why should anyone care what Pascal thought?  Anyone brilliant enough to invent whole new fields of mathematics that included Statistics and Probability Theory sees and […]

Every day, each human program gets up and spends the day doing three things:  processing, speaking, and doing.  Every human being has been been occupied with those three things since the first human program, Adam,  was downloaded on the Sixth Day in the Garden. Catholic Fundamentalism encourages us to make every thought, every word, and […]

Many of us have seen old flint or obsidian arrowheads for sale in antique stores.  Often,  such collections were carefully framed and hung on walls. Where did they come from?  Farmers, walking behind horse-drawn implements, frequently found them, picked them up, and kept them.  Others were dug up, often in Indian graveyards where they were […]

Imaginary Problems Several days ago, a local group celebrated an event by releasing several dozen balloons.  Within two days, the local newspaper had printed a letter written by a local do-gooder. In essence, the letter said that we should not have balloon releases because they “endangered animals”.  She did not mention a single animal that […]