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Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that 11.9 percent of all adult American males are known by the nickname "Mad Dog," while the remaining 88.1 percent have a friend nicknamed "Mad Dog." We know these figures are correct because if you add them, the resulting sum is 100 percent. Viewed from the point of view of American females, 100 percent of "Mad Dogs" are undesirable vestiges of bachelor life, when your ability to select your friends was not constricted by ...

By the time you read this, I could be dead. If so, I am going to get a second opinion. Fortunately, that shouldn't be necessary because I recently got a first opinion from my doctor, who not only said I probably won't die in the next five years but predicted I will live to be 151. I began to wonder about my longevity when I read that researchers in the United Kingdom had created a survey that can calculate a person's chances of dying in the next five years. I took the 14-question survey, ...