Joe's Blog

"Respect your elders" is a common saying, even though you don't hear people say it much any more. It's supposed to mean that you should acknowledge that they have been around much longer than you, they are probably (or should be) wiser because of it, and you should respect them for it. The...

When you live in an apartment, you coexist with your neighbors. And if any of them are loud, obnoxious, or otherwise troublesome, it's uncomfortable. Here's a family who's living in an apartment in Glasgow, Scotland, and having trouble with one of the neighbors. The neighbor is scaring the kids, an...

((6 + 19 - 11 +5 - 4)/5) ((8*4) + 1))/11 ((4 - 5) * 6) + 9 Look at these for a moment. There are parentheses, and several operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each equation stands on its own, and is different and independent from each other. Yet they all mean the same th...

Just before I fall asleep, I often scan the news on USA Today via my cell phone app. The other night, I came across this article, which talks about how there is a growing contingent of people who, when it comes to religion, are declaring themselves as "So what's" or "None's" or ...

Making a business out of providing readings on a mass-produced level via a call center has met with many problems, the biggest of which is fakery. Years ago in the US, we had Miss Cleo. I remember not being able to watch tv without seeing her commercials popping up on nearly every channel, and then...