Boats aren’t built with the idea that they will leak. But if a boat springs a leak and begins to fill with water, a bilge pump will solve the problem. Using a bilge pump isn’t the ideal situation for any boat though. No, the ideal is for the boat to float and keep the water out without a pump. Likewise, a car isn’t supposed to leak oil from its engine. We can pour a liter in every month to fix the problem, to keep it running, but this isn’t the …

In 2007 baseball revenues were over six billion dollars. The commissioner made over 14 million dollars. The average player made 3.1 million dollars. Average, that means some were higher and some were lower. If you do the math, about half the players made lower, most of them around the minimum of 400,000 dollars. Stars on average make at least 5 million a year. Superstars make well over ten million dollars a year. As you can see baseball is flush with cash. But not everybody.
Baseball is not like the NBA, where …

It was Friday and I was really hungry for Chinese. I innocently asked a few people I work with to go to the Chinese buffet with me.
They recoiled in horror. “You can’t eat meat on a Friday!”
“Why?” I asked with curiosity.
“Aren’t you Catholic? You can’t eat meat on Fridays during lent.”
“Oh,” I said, while I was thinking, “And why is that?” Honestly, where did that tradition come from?
I am not criticizing Catholics, or the religion. I am just curious where this rule about no meat during lent came …

By Carl Megill
First, let me assure you that I’m not going to bring this list down to the lowest common denominator with a bunch of mindless, idiotic, sexual references. If you want that kind of list, perhaps you should be reading such tripe somewhere else. Anyone can write an article that exploits sex. That’s not where this article is going. As you’ll read, all ten things that guys hate to hear in bed are all, pretty much, family friendly. Why, even Grandma could enjoy this list full of insightful and …