Stephen Hawking is telling us what every product of Catholic overschooling has suspected for a while now: God didn’t create the universe.  He cites the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than our Sun saying:

“That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions – the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass – far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings.”

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. “Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.

“It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.” “If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God,”

The more I hear from Stephen Hawking, the less overall hope I have.

Note to self: Stop inviting Stephen Hawking to dinner parties.

I realize most guys have picked up on the unspoken laws of the men’s room, but I frequently see guys that seem to have no idea what they are doing in there.  This post will serve as a little tip sheet that you can send along to any of your friends or coworkers that may need a refresher course on men’s room etiquette.

Choosing a Urinal

Let’s refer to Figure 1.

Figure 1 - Choosing a Urinal

In exhibit 1 you see a row of 4 urinals.  While they appear, and actually are, 4 urinals, there is a “little guy” on the right.  All men are familiar with the little guy, he’s the shorter urinal that’s reserved for, uh, little guys.  No one wants to use the little guy unless they’ve had plenty to drink at a baseball game or they’re in a big men’s room line at a concert and  being pressured to grab whatever urinal becomes available first. Continue reading →