Not a single debate, but I like the Monk Debates. Calm, reasoned approaches with a great format.

I probably use my driver and table saw most, but my cordless multitool is climbing up there.

Someone once told me that memos are not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

In what ways is it the worst time in the history of humanity?

I stay away from most news sites. I only skim CBC and BBC. I constantly look back in histroy for perspective. It helps me realize we are living in one of the best times in humanities' existance.

I left Haiti with no solutions. Many Haitians looked at us (middle class of the developed world) as the cause of their problems - that the stuff we consume and the stuff we waste and the energy we consume results in shortages there. They have no social safety net, bad health care, little food, rampant disease. I don't know what the answers are, but often when I go to bed without hunger pangs, or enter my huge house (in some places, they took turns sleeping because there wasn't enough room on the floor for the whole family to lie down), or walk into a doctor's office, I think of them.

I worked in a hospital in Central Haiti for three years. Children died regularly because they didn't have enough to eat. A visit to the hospital (which included seeing a doctor, any lab tests, medicine, or x-rays) was $10, a price that many people couldn't afford. They looked on us middle class like we look at billionaires.

Technically, silicone does not rot. It breaks down into smaller materials but does not decompose into its base components like organic material.

Bones do rot, just more slowly than flesh.

That would be the wurst.

The McDonalds breakfast meal in North America is called egg Mcmuffin which is an egg with a muffin. Mc sounds similar to mit, so it's a play on the two similar sounds.

Unless there's some critic event like a civil war, I'm guessing it will be a slow decline of the U.S. I don't think any country stands to replace it, at least not in the same amount of dominace that the United States had. I think two or three countries, including the U.S., will dominate economic and military power for quite a number of years with a great deal of shuffling between them.