Energy Is a Well Defined, Concrete, Measurable Scientific Quantity

It is not a vague pliable concept that can be applied to whatever end you want.

Specifically, applying a vague notion of energy has been used to provide some sort of specious pseudo-scientific support to many bullshit ideas, including the following: ghosts (left-over energy), auras (psychic energy - or worse: electromagnetic field energy), raw food diets (food loses energy cooking - or similarly the "grass-has-more-energy-than-the-cow-eating-it" line of argument for vegitarianism), powers attributed to crystals, geometric shapes (pyramids) and such, astrology.

The point is this: by appealing to 'energy' in any similarly fallacious claim, you are not supporting it. In fact, you are not saying anything at all, as your notion of energy is underspecified to the point of meaninglessness. Appealing to the 'energy' of a crystal is really just restating that it has whatever other powers you were trying to attribute to it in the first place. It is reduced to a tautology. You might as well just say it has magic powers.

Energy is not mysterious; it cannot be made to do whatever you want. Please stop doing such violence to a concept that science has worked extremely hard to solidify and quantify over millennia.

I Wish I Were Stupid Enough for Placebos to Work

Not that I am above the concept generally; I am talking about the useless 'cures' that are hawked on late night TV. Or the classic snake oil medicine. Things like that.

I wish I could really get better rest because of diapers taped to the bottom of my feet, or have more energy all day because of a $5 12-oz smoothie. Sure, one might say that those who go for these things are being ripped off, but if the placebo works, it is just as real. I say they are getting their money's worth and more!

Now, if only someone could combine a convincing health tonic placebo with beer.

Forunately, I Didn't Want a Job in the First Place

With the economy the way it is, things are really looking up in the unemployment sector. Fortunately, I got in on the ground floor: I jumped straight into unemployment right out of college without hesitation.

I should be reaping the benefits soon.