| #401: | The world is full of Big Talkers: people who say they'll do amazing things but usually come up with a million excuses not to. |
| #402: | Just released a new Thing You Don't Need: "Suicide" http://bit.ly/5lBTe - Paging Dr. Kavorkian! |
| #403: | Amazing, fantastic, exhilarating, extraordinary, nutritious, healthy, beautiful, powerful, latest - I propose all these words be banned! |
| #404: | DSM, the mental illness bible, is being revised. LA Times http://bit.ly/4to2c - Always fascinating reading. More fun than Scientology! |
| #405: | Some people can look at clouds and see castles, animals and faces. I look at them and see the opening scene of "The Simpsons" |
| #406: | Let's not ban gay marriage but ban ALL marriage. Barbaric medieval custom. Like giving guns to teenagers. http://bit.ly/7QPsM |
| #407: | The law is a religion like any other, with its blind assumptions. If you're a lawyer, you have to believe, because you're a priest. |
| #408: | The blind assumptions of law are that problems are fixed by written rules and by battle in court, but both things can BECOME the problem. |
| #409: | The law, by its nature, suppresses creativity. Every new rule makes it more difficult for people to find unique personal solutions. |
| #410: | The law is necessary, but so is subversion of it. At some point you have to set it aside and analyse the real affects of your actions. |
| #411: | The law is not morality. It is a crude caricature of morality. True morality is taking responsibility for the effects of your actions. |
| #412: | You don't get off the hook for anything by saying "I obeyed the law." That is a coward's excuse. |
| #413: | A New York chick disses on actors http://bit.ly/17we9Y - "Actors are simply people pretending to be other people." |
| #414: | California's dysfunction comes from its voters. LA Times http://bit.ly/CbITS - Too much democracy, too directly, can be crippling. |
| #415: | You can spend a lot of money trying to save money. Also time, which is far more valuable. |
| #416: | Is it really "green" to spend twice as much for a hybrid car that uses only slightly less gas? You could plant trees with the money! |
| #417: | Atheists are boring. LA Times http://bit.ly/fRApW - "atheists are intent on proving that God not only doesn't exist but is evil to boot." |
| #418: | Casinos provide brochures on the evils of "problem gambling" but their business model depends on it. |
| #419: | Those health warnings on cigarettes and liquor are completely ineffective in changing behavior. The effort is purely political. |
| #420: | There is nothing more dangerous than pure democracy. It is arbitrary rule by the hysteria of the moment. |
| #421: | I feel fortunate that I had my own financial crash five years before everyone else's. The current recession has been kind to me. |
| #422: | The Psychology of Boom and Bust. LA Times (5/17) http://bit.ly/3A76l "Financial loss can be as traumatic as terminal illness." |
| #423: | PHL and PHX are fine sleeping airports. See my article "How to Sleep in an Airport." http://bit.ly/X5wQf |
| #424: | "The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction." Christopher Lasch. More quotes: http://bit.ly/J63PP |
| #425: | My love for you may be unconditional, but my interactions with you are not. |
| #426: | My prediction: No one will ever build a new house or casino in Las Vegas (other than those already started). The growth is over! |
| #427: | Attention magicians: You can't create illusions for a living and then complain about people believing in the paranormal. |
| #428: | "It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to." Walter Linn, via @variouscool |
| #429: | "Adult entertainment" is anything but. |
| #430: | Too much information: I have a third vestigial nipple. You may have one too! My 2006 article: http://bit.ly/SuxLp |
| #431: | The desert is littered with the carcasses of failed dreams. Everyone has a brillant idea, but there's not enough traffic to support it. |
| #432: | A relationship cannot truly grow unless there is the realistic option to withdraw and renegotiate. |
| #433: | The number of vain, unproductive hobbies you can engage in is limited only by the time and money at your disposal.. |
| #434: | You can't explain narcissism to a narcissist. |
| #435: | The greatest danger of marriage is the loss of negotiating power. |
| #436: | The other side of commitment is loss of freedom. |
| #437: | Nothing offends me as much as cute, adorable gift products made by Chinese sweatshop labor. These are Blood Bunnies! |
| #438: | The most valuable accessories of modern life are foam earplugs. I use mine everywhere! Find them cheap in the firearm section of Wal-Mart™. |
| #439: | There are no perfect relationships. All of them require leverage and negotiation. You have to to fight for what you want. |
| #440: | In marriage, you inevitably become the enabler of your spouse's addictions. You lose power as soon as you say "I do." |
| #441: | Actors are usually highly narcissistic but musicians tend to be less so because their success depends more on genuine skill. |
| #442: | A narcissist makes a good swindler, but he is also easily swindled because his radar is poor about the intentions of others. |
| #443: | The whole idea of freedom is that you don't know in advance what you might need it for. |
| #444: | Gays who can't marry should feel lucky: They cannot bow to tradition but must pursue more enlightened forms of relationship. |
| #445: | In the current era, we are all grappling with narcissism. How much "me" should we put out there? |
| #446: | Should you brag about your full-course meal when others are starving or about your exotic vacation when others can't go? What is the limit? |
| #447: | What should we think about people who take pride in their own emptiness? "I enjoy being shallow." We must take them at their word. |
| #448: | The most vapid form of travel is the cruise. You can't find a more artificial environment outside of a video game. People pay for this? |
| #449: | What happened to the gold tablets written in Reformed Egyptian after Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from them? God took em back! |
| #450: | The Malthusian Dilemma says that when you feed the hungry their population expands, creating just as much misery as before. |
| #451: | All forms of charity risk creating dependence while failing to change behavior. See my "Paradox of Protection" http://bit.ly/H9tAQ Kilroy 23 |
| #452: | If you're starting a new religion, the best thing that can happen is to be persecuted. You can play the victim for millennia! |
| #453: | Paranoia is essential to sustaining any religion. There has to be the sense that the rest of the world is out to get us. |
| #454: | I'm tired of companies that say, "We're here for YOU!" They're here to make money and if YOU get in the way, they'll pretend to care. |
| #455: | Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he'll deplete the local fisheries. - (Retweeeted on 2/13/10) |
| #456: | The Book of Mormon is 500+ dense pages. The golden tablets it was translated from must have weighed TONS! |
| #457: | The only essentials in life are food, protection from weather, internet access and a medical plan. Everything else is negotiable. |
| #458: | Here is the South Park version of the founding of Mormonism by Joseph Smith http://bit.ly/ZATTg (3 minute clip + more from same episode) |
| #459: | Even superheroes have to do their laundry. Yes, people are going to die, but you can't be flying around in a soiled supersuit. |
| #460: | A tragic country music song (yet to be written): Already belong to someone else when the right one comes along. |
| #461: | At the core of every good movie is a simple human dilemma that all the special effects in the world can't buy. |
| #462: | The greatest human disasters are usually born in euphoria. You overestimate your own abilities, so you take on more than you can handle.. |
| #463: | South Park doesn't really satirize the Joseph Smith story; it just recounts it. The story is self-satirizing! http://bit.ly/ZATTg |
| #464: | The best things in life are not promoted or advertised. You have to find them yourself. |
| #465: | I'm sick of airline employees telling me what to do. What if I don't want to "Sit back, relax and enjoy the flight"? |
| #466: | The captain told me to "Sit back, relax and enjoy the flight." How is this possible WHEN THE SEAT RECLINES ONLY TWO INCHES?! |
| #467: | My photos from a very short visit to TEMPLE SQUARE in Salt Lake City http://bit.ly/LxkF8 (I spent about a half hour there yesterday) |
| #468: | Photographed a rattlesnake near Area 51 and set foot in the Little A'Le'Inn for the first time in 16 years. My report: http://bit.ly/mQsVt |
| #469: | When the captain says what a pleasure it was to serve me on this flight, does he really mean it, or is he just faking? |
| #470: | When climbing a mountain in Nevada, encountered an empty water bottle from Fiji. How much energy was wasted on that journey? |
| #471: | Stopped again at the Little A'Le'Inn and had a World Famous Alien Burger. Just as I remembered: awful! Obviously, the aliens weren't fresh. |
| #472: | Intelligence is not a gift but a choice. |
| #473: | When the kids ask, "Are we there yet?" tell them that, by definition, "there" is unobtainable. |
| #474: | As soon as a sperm fertilizes the egg, rapid changes on the egg's surface prevent any other sperm from entering. That's love! |
| #475: | Rome wasn't built in a day, nor did it fall in a day. There was a long period of glorious debauchery. |
| #476: | Pity those who are cursed with beauty. They have no incentive to develop an inner life. |
| #477: | Why would anyone use a cramped ordinary toilet stall when they can have a spacious HANDICAPPED stall? Come on in! Set a spell! |
| #478: | Marriage was living with the Thought Police. I got in trouble for what I said, what I thought and what I might say or think in the future. |
| #479: | It's good to know that Diners Club and Carte Blanche are so widely accepted, but has anyone ever actually seen one? |
| #480: | The purpose of clothing is to keep you warm and to not interfere with the image you are trying to convey. Fashion has no other calling. |
| #481: | The original purpose of taste was to guide our ancestors to the most nutritious food. It has no meaning other than that. |
| #482: | Without the structure of a "job" and heavy debt to enforce it, most people wouldn't know what to do with themselves. |
| #483: | All of our hungers - taste, sex, music, etc - evolved for a purpose. You can't take them away from purpose and find lasting meaning in them. |
| #484: | Music is the subcarrier of language. Before an infant knows any words, he learns the song of his language. Music is a side effect. |
| #485: | I love being cornered by Mormon missionaries or Jehovah's Witnesses. I start preaching to them, and soon THEY'RE squirming to get away! - #religion |
| #486: | An archive of all my tweets, in sequential order, is found here: http://bit.ly/18Yh8s |
| #487: | There is no neurological "free energy" - from caffeine, drugs, etc. Any temporary lift you get is paid for later. |
| #488: | The central issue in controlling your weight: Eat only when you're hungry. |
| #489: | Real hunger comes from a drop in blood sugar. False hunger is a psychological desire for food without the drop. You have to distinguish. |
| #490: | The relentless commercial and social pressure is to eat, eat, eat. You have to resist and learn to eat just enough to make hunger go away. |
| #491: | When you're hungry, how about you go into Taco Bell™ and get ONE BEAN BURRITO - that's it! Cures the hunger and it's all you need. |
| #492: | Of course, Taco Bell™ doesn't want you to buy just one bean burrito. They want to sell you all their high profit items. Don't listen! |
| #493: | The paradox of jealousy is that it drives away the person you are jealous about. |
| #494: | All the cuisine in the world can't compare to a fresh baked roll and butter. |
| #495: | I've seen a lot of things in Europe, but what I remember right now are the fresh rolls I bought in the supermarket at the Frankfort airport. |
| #496: | People tend to obsess over exotic risks, like plane crashes, when it's the common everyday risks that are going to get you. |
| #497: | The world gives you two artistic choices: Either you do things well or you do them to make money. There is no middle ground. |
| #498: | Religion is not real morality but a fake substitute. It means you don't have the courage to make your own moral choices. |
| #499: | Most people obsessed with fantasy adventures - scifi, video games, etc - would never consider real ones, like travel. |
| #500: | In Wyoming, it was "historic" when pioneers left their mark on Independence Rock but illegal when modern visitors do it. A double standard? |