Humans are strange animals. Have you ever noticed how desperately they try to communicate with one another? They speak, they write, they paint, they sing -- they laugh, they cry, they make faces and they make gestures -- they fight wars, they seduce, they raise their voices, they partake in passive-aggressive dances when you don’t turn the TV c[...]

On the elevator-thing this morning some punk-toddler was pointing at me as if he’s never seen a dinosaur before. His mother leaned in and whispered, “Don’t point.” Don’t point? Humans are fascinating. Where along the way did human society decide it was rude to point? I decided to point back. His mother gave me a look that would [...]

Were we ever expected to take the Oedipus complex seriously? I think most of us realize a lot of Freud’s ideas were flawed and his pop-psychology really only penetrated (ha) the early 20th century’s zeitgeist because it was racy to talk about psychosexual stuff, especially in a day when people couldn’t rely on the Jersey Shore for entertainme[...]