Author Archives: Ethan Backer

Misery loves company… It’s an unrequited love.

I realized, after reading a news article about the Beatles’ children joining together for a concert, that I am angry at the Beatles.  The Beatles, who sang songs with titles like, “All You Need is Love, ” “Come Together,” “Let It Be”… Lennon’s “All we are saying, is give peace a chance.” These same people […]

What if the mythical creature we call, “dragon” is a story that began after the discovery a dinosaur skeleton?

I wonder why I have never heard about a company being sued for murder… Think about this: Everyday in the morning when Mrs. Smith made her husband John’s coffee, she added her own secret ingredient… a dash or arsenic, for flavor enhancement.  Over time John develops: headaches, confusion, severe diarrhea, and drowsiness.  As the years […]

I wonder if math, as we know it, would be completely different if people had four fingers on each hand instead of five.

Seems like the difference between somebody and everybody is that somebody does something while everybody thinks about doing something that will make them a somebody, someday.

Why is is that an object dropped in water, no matter what the shape, leaves circular ripples?

Civilization… is so uncivilized.