Cav's Place

I know this will sound like a stupid question, but why do people find it so hard to treat others fairly, or at least to admit when they’ve been unfair and accept what’s coming to them as a result of that without futher complaints? The “result” I’m talking about can be either direct, indirect or […]

Once again, it’s time to comment on a study. This one suggests that people could be too happy to achieve their full potential, since those who ranked their happiness as ten on a ten-point scale had a somewhat lower income and somewhat poorer academic results than those who ranked themselves as nine, eight or even […]

Somebody told me a while back that 20 years ago it seemed like everybody was middle-class, but today it seems like nobody is anymore. She was talking about the US, but the issue of a missing middle-class applies everywhere, the only difference being that in many places in never really existed in the first place. […]

When people think about a job, they usually think about going to a certain location every day and either sitting at their desk or taking their place around some sort of machine. Granted that many jobs do require the worker to be there in order to operate the equipment or get in direct contact with […]

During the past few years I kept hearing that the winter’s gone around these parts, and for good reason. But then you have a day like today, a little below freezing, moderate snowfall and winds at 30-35 km/h gusting up to 60-65 km/h. As blizzards go, this one seems pretty modest to me, yet now […]