The Side Effects of Endorphins

I do have a favorite short, it’s comfortable and has meaning for me,

So a little, very little.

I eat sauerkraut on new years. But no.

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

• Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

And back to Stevie Wonder

Very superstitious, nothing more to say
Very superstitious, the Devil’s on his way
13-month-old baby, mm, broke the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past, mm

When you believe in things that you don’t understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain’t the way, no, no, no