#35: | Humans evolved from apes through cooking. NY Times: http://bit.ly/FIlZn Compare to my Chimp screenplay: http://bit.ly/emBNO |
#37: | People choose a WORSE diet when a healthy option is offered. NY Times (4/6): http://bit.ly/9VQBs - An interesting human perception defect. |
#97: | Male Data Collection Syndrome (MDCS) is the propensity of the human male to collect useless info and statistics: sports scores, etc. |
#156: | Star Trek movie fact checking: In the 23rd Century no educated human will speak English as a second language, let alone Russian as a first. |
#204: | Big Brother is watching us, with video cameras everywhere. Trouble is: humans have to monitor those cameras, so BB is still blind. |
#219: | All conspiracy theories are confounded by human politics, in that it's hard to get evil conspirators to agree on anything. |
#319: | Stardate 2009.141, Las Vegas, early 21st Century. I am torn: Should I reveal to the humans the doom that awaits them or keep it to myself? |
#328: | Human relations are a constant struggle between loneliness on one side and engulfment on the other. |
#345: | Once you know your marriage isn't gong to work, the most humane thing you can do for everyone is to cut the cord quickly. |
#363: | I seem to be missing something. What is the point of a high-res TV screen that exceeds the resolution of the human eye that's watching it? |
#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.. |
#511: | Humans have a primal need for "witnesses" - beings more powerful than themselves acknowledging what they are doing. |
#521: | Our need for witnesses arises from our human nature. We are followers, even when we lead. We are always hooked in to our social environment. |
#522: | Humans are unique in the animal world for their ability to take instruction. They are programmed to want approval, to be "witnessed." |
#545: | The rarest of all human abilities is to question ones own position in life. |
#557: | Human life does not thrive under law or commerce, only in the hidden places that law and commerce ignore. |
#574: | Humans evolved to eat cooked foods. Cooking is part of our digestive process, like the four stomachs of a cow. |
#595: | Why you need civil rights: because law enforcement will always be a flawed human operation with a built-in bias toward guilt. |
#610: | Pity the autistic male whose only knowledge of human culture is related to the following of sports teams. Also pity his wife. |
#620: | Millions of U.S. households aren't ready for the switch to digital television. It's a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS! |
#632: | "Packratting" is the human tendency to stockpile resources even when they are not realistically needed. With mental illness, it gets worse. |
#651: | Why are sweat glands unique to humans? They seem like such a handy cooling mechanism. |
#666: | Zahavi's "Handicap Principle" says that animals (and humans) will ostentatiously waste resources to signal their fitness. It's everywhere! |
#669: | The Handicap Principle helps explain human breasts, which are far larger than they have to be to give milk. They are a fitness signal. |
#670: | The Handicap Principle suggests an inate human tendency to ostentatiously display and waste ones resources. It signals you are powerful. |
#777: | To walk down the street of any busy city is to witness 10,000 forms of human slavery. |
#826: | NY Times: "The Resilience of Modern Marriage" http://bit.ly/8cM4b - A tribute to the strength (or insanity) of human pair bonding. |
#854: | In the human world, there's tragedy everywhere you look - if you care to look! |
#863: | The law, due to its human origins and human enforcement, will always be a royal screw-up. |
#914: | No human can obey every law and government regulation. It's impossible! You must choose what to comply with and why. |
#941: | The main goal of human relations is not to convince people you are right but simply to get the behavior you want from them. |
#970: | In human behavior, there is no "normal", just differing gradations of dysfunction. |
#1106: | I am protesting Frito Lay's human rights policies in [insert location here]. Those are blood chips! |
#1107: | UFO evidence that seems clear at the beginning turns muddy upon closer examination. Damn humans keep getting in the way! |
#1110: | Don't ask me to explain the human male. I'm a member by gender but not by culture. |
#1149: | True humanity lies in skirting the law. You don't openly defy it but subtly evade it to reach a morally acceptable conclusion. |
#1150: | In law schools, I would add a required course: "Evasion of Law." It would teach how to skirt the law to achieve the best human outcome. |
#1201: | My clinical study of the "Preening and Nesting Behavior of the Human Female" http://bit.ly/3bCc28 (Kilroy Cafe #7, June 08) |
#1240: | A song consists of lyrics sung by the human voice. Instrumental music is only a supporting character. |
#1310: | Photo Tip #6: HUMANIZATION. Every photo needs a human or human-like character to give the scene perspective. |
#1361: | Let's get our priorities straight: The human body is only the physical avatar of ones online personality. |
#1382: | A fundamental human conflict is separating appearance from operational quality -- what looks nice from what really works. |
#1417: | NY Times: "In Taming Dogs, Humans May Have Sought a Meal " http://bit.ly/3M4Q35 - Dogs are the animal most entwined with us. |
#1490: | The primary activities of pair-bonded humans appear to be centered on nest-building and only incidentally the rearing of young. |
#1515: | Most human behavior is driven by ego, not logic. People do whatever seems to protect their self-esteem in the moment, even if it hurts. |
#1524: | If you trust in God and human authority, you're going to be blindsided by the world because you didn't understand what was really going on. |
#1569: | It is remarkable how humans can willingly accept imprisonment in exchange for the approval of their family and society. |
#1572: | No matter how complex the world may become, it will always be dominated by the stupid mistakes of human ego. |
#1590: | A common affliction of the human male is to dwell on technical minutia while completely missing the big picture. |
#1600: | The most powerful human emotion is regret: inner shame for ones own mistakes. Grief doesn't go on forever, but regret can! |
#1610: | Misery is the common theme of human existence. |
#1620: | Misery is one of two common threads of human existence. The other is denial. |
#1652: | What separates humans from the apes is not just the ability to learn but the ability to be taught - to blindly trust the wisdom of others. |
#1656: | Most human behavior is simply inaccessible to words. You can't talk people into changing. You can only punish and reward. |
#1711: | The ultimate test of any law or public policy is how human behavior actually responds to it -- which no ideology can predict. |
#1816: | Revolution, in most of human history, is a bloody battle to replace one form of oppression with another. |
#1873: | Avatar: At least the shapely Na'Vi women have the decency to not go topless, in deference to our human sensitivities. |
#1957: | "Shooting the messenger" is the official human sport. If a message conflicts with one's own investments, that's the easiest way. |
#1977: | "The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality." - John Adams |
#1998: | Has Iams ever considered making food for humans? Imagine: complete and balanced nutrition in bland pellets you eat every day. Works for me! |
#2056: | Throughout human political history, most "bold initiatives" have lead to deep shit. |
#2141: | Gadgetitus is an affliction, chiefly of the human male, involving the acquisition and maintenance of too many gadgets and devices. |
#2156: | The fundamental human conflict is between inertia and taking control. |
#2190: | The basic human drama, in fiction and in life, is about a character facing his own fears and overcoming his own inertia. |
#2235: | Super Bowl Sunday is a time to reflect on the vast wasted human potential of the people watching it. |
#2256: | The human world is built on a web of lies and delusions. If you dispell one of them, the system will replace it with another. |
#2353: | If you think you can live without medical care (ie insurance), consider that the "natural" historic lifespan of humans was barely 40 years. |
#2357: | There ought to be a formula for evaluating human and animal suffering. Human should be rated higher, and slow torture more than quick death. |
#2382: | Everything you own but don't need not only clutters up your own life but isolates you from the bulk of humanity who is struggling to get by. |
#2394: | Among us lives a special race of humans who look like us and sound like us but inside they are not like us BECAUSE THEY'RE FRICKING IDIOTS! |
#2406: | There is no food item or consumer product that isn't tainted by some form of animal or human abuse. You just have to look deep enough. |
#2421: | It is human nature to obsess over minor risks while the big ones sneak up and get you from behind. |
#2501: | When trying to understand the irrational behavior of humans, there are no better research subjects than your own family members. |
#2537: | Reason in humans is an illusion. Human behavior is dictated by ego, with reason backfilled only later to support the choice already made. |
#2585: | All human brains are not equal. There are fundamental processing differences between adults as great as between different species. |
#2684: | Economic activity — buying, selling and scams related thereto — come as naturally to the human as breathing, eating and sex. |
#2724: | If you live in a home that exceeds your needs, you are vulnerable to the charge, "You did this instead of helping humanity?" |
#2765: | Good and evil are recognizable qualities in the human brain. Good is internal consistency, while evil is a mind at war with itself. |
#2774: | Technology can improve your life if you use it wisely, but it doesn't help humanity as a whole. There's more suffering now than ever before. |
#2794: | The fundamental human conflict is between fatalism and taking control. Problems are solved by moving from "I have no choice" to "I do." |
#2858: | Human Etiquette 101: When someone says, "How are you?" you are supposed to say, "Fine, thanks!" No one expects you to truthfully answer. |
#3053: | As the brain deteriorates, humans revert into packrats, saving juice containers and bits of string for future use that never comes. |
#3062: | "Entertainment" is a business model designed to generate profit and absorb human resources without actually accomplishing anything. |
#3066: | It takes a special breed of human to choose a pit bull as a pet: M - O - R - O - N. (They like guns, too, but luckily they can't spell.) |
#3081: | Scenery is meaningless without human context. #sixwordstories |
#3126: | In the hierarchy of human needs, sleep overrules all others (except maybe the need to pee). |
#3163: | The zoo on Rigel Seven found their human specimens were easily controlled by giving them television and the freedom to change the channels. |
#3184: | Essential for any literate human is to know the names and numbers of the L.A. freeways and the impact of a SigAlert on any one of them. |
#3195: | Most of humanity is living in the decrepit shell of past dreams. |
#3205: | Behind every scientist is the blind religious faith that more knowledge is better, a belief that is not proven by human history. |
#3234: | The typical human, upon gaining relative wealth, constructs a temple to himself called a "home" in which he is entombed until death. |
#3261: | People of Wal-Mart are a distinct human race, like Neanderthals. They supply our prisons and child welfare system and breed prodigiously. |
#3262: | Among adult humans, curiosity is rare. They may notice an alien presence in their environment, but they won't change course to investigate. |
#3328: | Humans are creatures of habit. True initiative — stepping out of one's normal pattern without being forced — is exceedingly rare. |
#3330: | "Why, yes, let's PRAY to stop human suffering. That way we don't actually have to DO anything about anything." @rejecter |
#3337: | What is familiar is more likely to guide human actions than what is safe, wise or less painful. |
#3384: | The law doesn't really solve problems, merely redistributes them. Only human judgment, rooted in the moment, can solve problems. |
#3393: | Video: The Pigeons of St. Marks Square, Venice: http://youtu.be/Zat66v7CHDE - Wall-to-wall pigeons... feeding on humans! Yesterday. |
#3441: | Dr. Guillotin's device for executing celebrities may have been more humane than current methods of public humiliation and pathetic decline. |
#3453: | The most fundamental human right is the ability to discreetly withhold information from others and release it only as you choose. |
#3465: | Extending the human lifespan would be a great boon to crossword puzzle makers, and there could be a 24-hour channel devoted to Jeopardy! |
#3476: | Humans are creatures of inertia. Whatever they are doing they are likely to keep doing until forced into another path. |
#3485: | The world is a waster of human potential, but the Number One waster of that potential is the individual himself. |
#3511: | It is human nature to stockpile resources (food, tools, etc) for future lean times, but in an environment of plenty it becomes pathological. |
#3529: | The true test of human character is how a person behaves when he has power over others and no accountability. |
#3567: | The greatest asset — and deepest flaw — of humans is their willingness to follow others and accept the assumptions they are given. |
#3604: | The rarest and most valuable of all human abilities is being relevant to the topic at hand.p |
#3605: | The rarest and most valuable of all human abilities is being relevant to the topic at hand. |
#3639: | At the Lorain County Fair, Wellington, Ohio, observing the haphazard effects of breeding and husbandry... in humans! |
#3657: | It is a human gift to discern patterns in chaos and live life as though it meant something. |
#3663: | Your only potential threat is human, and these animals rarely leave their cars except to waddle into the Wal-Mart. http://j.mp/cYRfpE |
#3690: | The phrase of the day is "parasitic human infants". And, yes, the nexus of the conspiracy IS the Discovery Channel. James Lee: dead prophet. |
#3763: | Humans are natural hoarders. They infuse objects with emotional meaning and don't want to part with them. |
#3838: | RT @BadDalaiLama: The main goal of human relations is not to convince people you are right but to get the behavior you want from them. |