“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
“Disgusting” Use of the Ladies’ Room Maybe Donald Trump knows a secret. I take note that Donald Trump recently took exception to Hillary Clinton using the ladies room during the Democratic debate. He spoke rhetorically to the crowd in front of him claiming not to know...
Harry Potter and Evil Incarnate Donald Trump vs. Lord Voldemort Like everyone else, I have always been a fan of the Harry Potter books. I read every one of them when they came out, and although I don’t remember all of Harry Potter’s adventures with his classmates and...
I no longer worry about the possibility of dying prematurely.
Also the noisy restaurant scale There are high-caloric foods and low-caloric foods. You could easily make a scale of foods on which the calories of each food (let’s say, for one ounce of food) can be measured against other foods. On the bottom of the scale would be an...
The Meaning of Life This may not be the last word on the subject I was lying in the bath this morning thinking about the meaning of life. I used to read in the bath, but since my eyesight has faltered, I consider things like the meaning of life. Last week I figured...
These are sneaky guys. In the wake of the Paris bombings Donald Trump and Ben Carson have come out strongly in favor of monitoring immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, and, to be on the safe side, Muslims in general. I think they underestimate how difficult...
The benefits of being really old I ran into an old friend of mine who was commenting—complaining really—about all those lost years. I told him I had discovered an advantage in getting older. When I was 70 or 75, I used to look in the mirror and see an old man; but now...
The aliens and the granary Ben Carson recently repeated his theory that the pyramids were built by Joseph and his Egyptian friends to serve as a granary so they could prepare for the seven “lean years” of famine that Joseph expected based on his careful reading of one...
Potential problems: for instance, the size of the doorknob. When Trump first began to talk about a great wall to prevent Mexicans from sneaking across our border into Texas, I thought he was speaking figuratively, as in, “The police are a bulwark (wall) against...
Potential problems In the defense of the second amendment, there are a growing number of states that have passed statutes making it lawful to carry weapons in church, in bars, at work, and on college campuses. In fact, there is growing support for the right to carry...
Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder The Abstinent-Desire Index (The ADI) “Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder” is a well-known aphorism that sums up the effect of sexual frequency on sexual appetite—and vice-versa. The effect is not linear. There is...
Ask him how he knows. Recently, I was watching a commercial about a product for erectile dysfunction. After a long list of possible side-effects, including blindness and deafness, the announcer suggested that before proceeding further, the man should make sure he was...