Free Association

• Why all this Ritalin for low attention span kids? Why not just more interesting teachers?

• I see a relation between how overcrowdedly we live and how rational we've become. Uncontrolled rationality might well be a mild state of panic when seen from a lookout in evolutionary time.

• Will we someday put our bulldozers in museums?

• My best friend and I have never done anything crazy to keep in shape. Sound diet and exercise has been the mantra, but now we are seriously thinking about starting the Chocolate Diet. There may already be one out there, but we'll be making up our own.