Inquiring minds want to know…

If individual skin cells last only about a week, and are continually being displaced by millions and billions of new cells pushing up from the ‘germinative layer’ underneath, why do I still have a scar, 43 years later, from when the cat scratched me on my wrist? Shouldn’t that scarred skin have been scraped off years ago and replace by new skin that hadn’t been scratched?

Anyone who has watched the ‘Discovery Health’ Channel has seen them – the people who are so obese that they can’t support their own weight and literally can’t get out of bed until someone comes along with a forklift and removes a wall to their houses to take them to rehab. But the truly interesting questions about their lives never seem to get answered in these documentaries. So, really, how do they poop?

If they can’t predict tomorrow’s weather with any degree of accuracy – and they clearly can’t – how am I supposed to get excited about the computer-generated prediction models that are the basis for 'global warming theory' when we still aren't breaking the record high temperatures from a different hot spell 40 years ago before the automobile was so much to blame? (Yes, I know, there is more to it than that, but there is much more to the argument ‘against’ as well. The true question here is why is 'global warming' being touted by our media as 'fact?' It's just another question that will never be answered out loud.)

And just being silly: They are advertising an insulated cup that ‘keeps hot things hot and cold things cold,’ prompting Mark to ask “How do it know?”

We’ve really needed distractions from our troubles lately. But I must admit that our ‘intellectual exercises’ haven’t been quite up to par.


P.S. Do an ‘ask’ search on ‘how long do scars last’ and, instead of dermatology information, you get pages and pages of references to song lyrics – the old-timey country music variety!