So maybe I have this really tiny amygdala, but just shut up about it and leave me alone, OK?
Do you spend time with a lot of friends? That might mean a particular part of your brain is larger than usual.
It's the amygdala, which lies deep inside. Brain scans of 58 volunteers in a preliminary study indicated that the bigger the amygdala, the more friends and family the volunteers reported seeing regularly.
Wishful thinking do-gooders love gun buybacks, deluding themselves into thinking the cause of public safety is somwhow being served when good people turn in their guns and bad people keep theirs. Now they've gone to the next logical step of indoctrinating our children with their delusion:
The Associated Press is out with its annual list of top 10 stories based on a poll of U.S. editors and news directors. The No. 1 story, according to those polled:
The coming death of mail as we know it -- no, no, not that mail; the other one:
Signs you're an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film.
And you enjoy using e-mail.
Oh, man, this is, like, so wack. Do they have to taint my music with their slimy spending orgies?
A new report slams $11.5 billion worth of what it calls wasteful government spending in 2010, including more than a half million dollars to digitize Grateful Dead itemes.
A marriage made in hell:
Is Arnold Schwarzenegger angling for a job in the Obama administration?
No nation can claim to be sufficiently civilized if all its citizens* don't have an equal right to die for their country, so let's congratulate American gays and lesbians for getting to join the club. But, good lord, could there maybe be a little more joy and a little less pouty whining?
Shall we start a Fort Wayne chapter?
You might be a redneck if
Leave to CNN, in reporting the story of how Ginger Littleton tried unsuccessfully to disarm the Panama City, Fla., school board meeting shooter with her purse, to include the detail we have all been waiting to hear:
Glad to have the company (pdf file):
