From the daring mind of Mojave66: What are the five things you think that humanity needs in order to survive and evolve into a peaceful civilization? “Things” could mean a philosophy, a technology, a spiritual perspective, a type of government… anything. This is not such a hard question. I think humanity needs very little to survive and evolve into a peaceful civilization: A total genetic overhaul, along with a massive change in environment from the one in which we evolved. (We’ve currently managed one kind of massive change but I’m not sure it’s the one we want.) Look, we’re hunters …

This week’s question, tersely fished from the mind of The Wonderful Mojave66: What were your five favorite classes in College (or in the highest educational institution you completed), and why? This, for some people, might be an easy question. Most of my friends in college seemed not to like many of their classes. For me, though, it’s a tough one. Five years of undergrad, two more years of grad school coursework, and in general, I found I enjoyed more classes than I disliked. I suppose it’s like for some people who get asked, “What are your five favorite books?” It’s …

This week’s Friday Five is from Adam, a man whom I believe knows his way around the cookie jar: You’ve been caught with your hand in the cookie jar. Busted. Stone-cold caught and about to get the smackdown you deserve. What 5 things would you say to dodge the bullet? Aw, baby, I was gonna surprise you. Get out of here till I finish making the coffee to go with this, and go back to studying. I’ll bring it to you when it’s ready, okay honey? Er, I thought there was money in here. Did you spend it? Oh, I’m …

This week’s Friday Five question comes from Marvin Long, who is currently co-hosting me with his with Keisha during my accident-ridden visit to Texas: One morning you wake up and discover that whatever it was that bit, irradiated, or otherwise made contact with you yesterday has transformed you into a muscle-bound freak with a penchant for spandex leotards. What do you say to your spouse/significant other, your boss, your best friend, your parents, your first ass-whuppee? So, as I mentioned, I just read the graphic novel Superman: Red Son so I’ve been thinking about the possible political ramifications of super-powers. …

It’s a big job, thinking about the “ought tos” of life. But that’s exactly what Rob asked of us F5ers last weekend: The Ten Commandments are shaking at the knees for want of a zimmer frame. They’re punchy and in need of a spit and shine and I’ll stop mixing metaphors there; or similies? What Five, because friday ten doesn’t rhyme, new guidelines, who listens to commands, would you suggest the Western world should prop up it’s faltering morality with? I’m not sure I’m up to this task at this point, with my banking minidisaster—I’m finding everything I write connected …

Roganda asks: Who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet each day? That is, 5 people who are neither friend nor family member, and whose name you may or may not know, but whom you see everyday or thereabouts, e.g. your paperboy, local bum, milkman, etc. This is especially tough since I can’t simply think about the people in my neighborhood as I encounter them, over the week, and prepare my answer. I need to think back over the the past few months and try to remember them all. This is especially hard as I’m sitting …

Laura‘s provided this week’s Friday Five question, which I’m answering a couple of days early because I’m going to Canada in the morning. So here goes: I’ve always hated the proverb “Practice makes perfect,” especially if uttered when I’m desperately trying to do something that’s just not coming out right. I just don’t care how true it is, I want things to happen NOW! What are the proverbs that make most impact in your life; the ones you use the most, the ones people keep saying to you, the ones that strike to you as the greatest wisdoms or wildest …

For some reason, it seems as if not enough questions by other people were added to the F5 question generator, so this week’s is once again mine: Did you know? Most of us have a list of funny little facts in our heads that we relish knowing. We sometimes tell them to other people, or put them in essays or posts in our blogs. Some people even make up “facts” and tell them to other people with a smug sense of “you didn’t know that, did you?” What are your five favorite little-known facts? (And are they true, or made …

This week’s F5 is courtesy of Roganda, who asks a short and sweet question: What 5 non-sexual, physical (tactile) sensations do you enjoy most? These might be a little weird, but one thing I’ll say is that I really only began to appreciate these things late in life, maybe a few years ago at best. I used to be quite monastic about things like this, or, well, maybe it was just I was so distracted by the intensity of my emotional life. Maybe the year before I left Korea, I began to appreciate certain physical sensations in everyday life, and …

This week’s F5 question comes from among the Green Boogers in Laura’s extensive collection: I have a confession to make: I actually like watching those lame, cliche-filled success-story films. You know the ones I mean – girl works her way off the streets and ends up studying in Harvard; boy wants to dance his own steps; girl wants to sing but her mother forbids it. Yeah. Hallmark channel material. Add a pot of ice cream and a box of tissues and I’m all set for the evening. Now that I revealed my darkest secret, what are your five most uncool …