Today's "research proving the obvious" entry:
We always thought men and women saw things differently. Now it's been proved. For it seems that while women want their perfect man to be eight inches taller than them, men are most satisfied when they are closer to their ideal partner, and look for someone who is only three inches shorter.
Makes my hillbilly heart glad to see news like this:
From a small Spring Valley factory, the Deering Banjo Co. is having its best year ever, defying the U.S. skills gap and California's manufacturing doldrums. It has expanded and trained its own workforce and expects to top $4 million in sales for the year ending June 30.
OK, this isn't the biggest news of the day, but it's certainly a milestone of some sort:
The Monopoly iron is going off to that giant linen closet in the sky.
A little light reading for a getting-chillier winter day -- 7 types of dudes who annoy everyong just by their very existence, including trolls, king turds and beta wimps, plus my favorite to hate, the male feminist:
Yijes. It appears I have harboring a couple of cold-blooded killers:
You know, this really never occurred to me, but it makes sense:
Interesting article in The Los Angeles Times about how people change:
Glancing around his study on a recent afternoon, Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert's eyes came to rest on his collection of thousands of music CDs, acquired over many years at considerable expense.
"I don't listen to a lot of them anymore," he said. "I was certain I'd listen to Miles Davis until the day I died."
OK, this is really, really nitpicky. This headline about about a southern Indiana crime caught my eye:
Do you suppose extremist wackos know they're extremist wackos? (OK, you who are about ready to say something about looking in the mirror, yeah, yeah, I get it.) Surely this guy has at least an inkling that he's a little bit out there.
