Estimates of “the total number of people who have ever lived” published in the 2000s range approximately from 100 to 115 billion. An estimate of the total number of people who have ever lived was prepared by Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau in 1995 and subsequently updated in 2002; the updated figure was [...]

There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one’s fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and [...]

You have three options: laugh, cry, or ignore. Titular quote: Female police officer speaking to a fifty-something man (apparently intoxicated) wearing a yarmulke. I hate to hear incorrect conjugations of the “to be” infinitive, though seeing an aging Yiddish man being read a kind of watered-down riot act helped defer the outrage. Laugh – It [...]