How to Make Decisions
Issue 15

We welcome your letters, questions and desperate pleas for help in this uncaring world. As always, e-mail WBXylo at Gmail.com.

Year End Special

All right, this is the deal: Next week’s column is the last HTMD of the year. I want you to tell me something you have learned this year. Some general advice that you want to share.

It might be: Use 2 flashlights when you work in the dark.

It might be: You don’t have to respect a person’s religion to tolerate it.

As the fella says, you’ll get a small measure of fame which is better than a slap on the belly with a wet trout.

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Quote of the Week

Don’t believe anything. Regard things on a scale of probabilities. The things that seem most absurd, put under ‘Low Probability’, and the things that seem most plausible, you put under ‘High Probability’. Never believe anything. Once you believe anything, you stop thinking about it. The more things you believe, the less mental activity. If you believe something, and have an opinion on every subject, then your brain activity stops entirely, which is clinically considered a sign of death, nowadays in medical practice. So put things on a scale or probability, and never believe or disbelieve anything entirely.

-Robert A. Wilson

PUZZLE
(Difficulty= normal)

What is the value of one-half of two-thirds of three-quarters of four-fifths of five sixths of six sevenths of eight-ninths of nine tenths of one thousand?

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