Articles by Darryl Seland

So, the other night I am browsing my local drug store, killing some time as I wait for the pizza I ordered at my favorite pizza joint in the same strip mall.

Legendary Baseball Manager Tommy Lasorda once said, “No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win one-third of your games.

Noted American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain.

I’ve discussed logical fallacies in my column in the past. One such fallacy I have not touched upon is the slippery slope.

Planned obsolescence. It’s an idea I’ve touched upon in a few of my columns in the past.

We’ve all encountered that argument, the one that is contentious and unmoving, ultimately resulting in one side uttering the phrase, “It’s apples and oranges.”

Failing to plan is planning to fail.” This quote is attributed to Benjamin Franklin and is a clever and lasting summation of the importance of having a plan of attack for just about everything we do.

Aristotle made the observation that people find it easiest to remember three things.

Not surprisingly, the definition of simplification is pretty simple—to make less complex or complicated; to make easier; or to reduce to fundamental parts.

The “double-edged sword” is a phrase from 15th century English that began as an idiom for someone using an argument that could both help and hurt their position.