About The Author

Mor­timer Leopold “Ricky” Burn­swell Smir­ck­les, a.k.a. Ricky Smir­ck­les, the bril­liant mind behind all the philo­soph­i­cal mas­ter­pieces appear­ing herein, shared with the most com­mon of men through this web­site, is prob­a­bly the most intel­li­gent and wis­est man on Earth … and neigh­bor­ing plan­ets. He has refused at least half a dozen aca­d­e­mic degrees (Ph.D.s, M.D.s, A.B.C.s, and L.S.D.s, among oth­ers) due to their inher­ent exag­ger­ated speci­ficity. He argues that a per­son should have the broad­est pos­si­ble knowl­edge of every­thing, and that aca­d­e­mic degrees con­tra­dict them­selves. For instance, a doc­tor of phi­los­o­phy should be some­one who has an enlarged vision of real­ity, how­ever, in order to earn such dis­tinct aca­d­e­mic degree, one must spe­cial­ize in a very spe­cific topic, the end result being that only the author, and hope­fully the advi­sor, will ever care a thing about it.

Com­ments are not wel­come, unless you really must — it will be a lot of work to delete them! He is sure that you, vis­i­tors, have the best of inten­tions, and he appre­ci­ates your effort in attempt­ing to out­smart the orig­i­nal arti­cles. Please don’t take it personally.