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Let me start by saying this. When it comes to thinking about putting the toilet seat down, I doubt that many men are as thoughtful about it as me. If I raise the seat, it gets placed down when I am finished. Without fail. Now having said that shall begin my little essay. Why is [...]


The following essay was submitted to NPR’s This I Believe by me today. ___ “Just a theory.” God, how I hate that phrase. Before I give context, dictionary.com definitions of the word “theory” as 1) A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been [...]