Cav's Place

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 […]

A TV station from here aired “Death of a President” this evening, the show also including some debate on the topic, and this got me once again thinking about how rotten politics are and how badly assassinations can backfire. It’s interesting to hear that it’s been banned from being aired on TV in the USA. […]

There are moments when you can’t hide behind plans, maybes or what ifs, and it seems like these days I’m going to have to see what I’m really made of in more ways than one, some of them unrelated…

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 […]