Back in the day, when Women’s Liberation was just beginning to bite, a popular T-shirt bore the motto “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Now, on its face, implementation of this idea would have negative implications for human reproduction. However, advocates of this principle were wont to cite the phenomenon […]

Rejoice, Dear Reader! You no longer need worry about the lack of adequate power storage interfering with the transition to renewable, completely unreliable energy. A team of brilliant scientists from the land of spaghetti and other health foods have created the first edible rechargeable battery. Yes, really. I, the Happy Pessimist, would never lie to […]

It is I, your interlocuter, The Happy Pessimist, returning after an extended period of silence. There has been a reason for my prolonged absence. The world is sufficiently out of control that I have been unable to identify anything more outrageous than the ordinary news. So, today, I wax poetic. All musical comedies are the […]

We all know that the Starship Enterprise, like all spaceships, zips between the stars using a space warp. You know, it bends space so that here and there are brought very close together, so that the absolute speed limit of the speed of light doesn’t cause any problem. There is one difficulty with this approach. […]

Hello again, Dear Reader, I return after an extended absence. Some of this absence I spent on the Upper Amazon (I’m not kidding), but I return refreshed and ready once again to bring you tidings of Doom. The latest sign of the apocalypse is being brought to us by the legislatures of New York and […]