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I love it - it's my favorite drink. I just posted this in the Writer's Showcase area. If you're a coffee lover it may interest you. http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?p=168566#post168566

The Wine of the Infidels Marc Friedlander The first time I can remember drinking it, I was about 4 or 5, and my sister Carol was about 9. That would make the year about 1955. After spending the night on a Castro Convertible at our Grandma and Grandpa’s apartment on Jewel Avenue in Queens...

The idea of a society in which the government has the power to sterilize is scarier than the alternative.

The point is not whether you think the urinal is art or if you think it isn't. Personally, I can't stand this sort of thing - those experts have their heads up their butts - if you pardon the expression - but the point is, someone should not be allowed to damage or detroy somebody else's...

So they invented a machine with hands that move around a dial. Looking at it, one might be convinced that this device is measuring the passage of time, and that proves that time really exists after all. The reality is, it's just a machine with some moving parts. In one sense of the word, the...

Larry King did a masterful job of wrenching the truth out of him. Frey was squirming. I just find it ironic, as I said, that he's getting flack for not being as bad a low-life as he originally claimed.

It's ironic that the credibility and reputation of James Frey - author of A Million Little Pieces - has been damaged, because he overstated, embellished and exaggerated his problems with the law and with substance abuse. He might be the first person in history to get in trouble like that...

steffee- I don't know why you would exclude "always be true to yourself". Actually, the quote is, "To thine own self be true." It was written by William Shakespeare, and it is indeed the best advice I ever heard. If you really want an explanation, it means that you can lie your head off to...

caj- You were clear enough. I can't really dispute you with any conviction because in fact my senses tell me you are right. Then, there is another part of me that says that 5 minutes ago or 5 minutes from now, or indeed, a nanosecond ago or a nanosecond from now, are abstract concepts, in the...

I submit that the ONLY one of those three are NOT abstractions is the NOW. By definition, the WAS and the WILL BE exist only in our minds. So there is only one point that is concrete, existing independant of our conceptions - the NOW. And since you need at least two points to establish a...

lovermuffin- What you say has some truth to it - on some level, NOTHING exists outside of the human brain. The old, If A Tree Falls In The Forest Does It Make A Sound... conundrum. But when my more practical side takes over, I believe that there ARE things that DO exist, independant of our...

I can deal with abstract concepts, but TIME is the most abstract concept we have, yet we all take it for granted. What got me thinking about this was the Extra Second thread. I mean, let's face it. There was no extra second - they were just synchronizing the clocks to the earth. It's not...

That would be one hell of a stunt, to be quite blunt.

No, not at all. That's a shallow stereotype. The fact is, gasoline works well in some situations, but in others, bombs are the answer. It really depends on the specifics.

like: exculpatory; verisimilitude; climactic; circumspect dislike: nice

If this were a Laurel and Hardy film or a Buggs Bunny cartoon, your house - and your neighboor's houses - would have burned down, your dog would have caught fire, and so would your own pants. The only thing that would have been unburned would be the tree. So, consider it your good fortune that...

Has anybody been playing with this? I heard of it a few months back, when they were broadcasting images from New Orleans after hurricane Katerina. I've only just downloaded the free interface this weekend. I tell you, this thing is unbelievable!!!!!! You can fly over any area of the earth...

If you had 3 jugs, the only way to solve that problem would be surgery.

One day in the future, a Jewish president is elected. One day he calls his mother to invite her to the white house for dinner the followin evening. "So how am I supposed to get to the Vite Houze?", she askes her son. "Mom", he answers. "I'm the president! A limo will pick you up at your...

That's hard to say. But I think a fear of creepy varmints is inborn - or else why would it be so universal? There is just something about them. Yet, I am fascinated by them - thus my penchant for aquiring such specimens.