Humorous ramblings from the mind of Brian Malow
I’m a Jew from Texas – a relatively rare breed, we can’t even propagate in the wild. So, before my migration to Northern California – which is counter to the eastward migratory pattern characteristic of my kind – a migration which, over time, deposits us in the Sunshine State like calcium carbonate on a stalagmite …
My sister told me recently that she won’t eat Chinese food anymore because it has too much sodium. But isn’t that ridiculous? To single out one element from the Periodic Table? You’d have to have a pretty sensitive palette: “Oh, I don’t eat Mexican food… too much magnesium!“ or “Waiter, I’m sorry, I asked for …
Both my parents smoked cigarettes while I was growing up, and I grew to dislike them (the cigarettes, not my parents). I’m a non-smoker, but not a militant one. In fact, I think some of the smoking restrictions here in California are a little extreme. Maybe even comical. My favorite example is the San Francisco …
For all that astronomers and physicists, philosophers and poets have learned about the universe since women and men first peered out of those tiny holes in our skulls, we are still no closer to answering perhaps the most fundamental cosmological question of all: Why is there something instead of nothing? But I have my own …