All about me

Feeling good about being bad:

Researchers say that a little bit of gossip is healthy. It's what keeps the culture going, greasing the social machinery.

It's almost like being told that cigarettes are good for you.

Aw, somebody is revealing newspaper secrets.

This is just sad:

FURY erupted last night after Sir Winston Churchill was axed from school history lessons. Britain's cigar-chomping World War Two PM — famed for his two-finger victory salute — was removed from a list of figures secondary school children must learn about.

Listen you grammar Nazis I don't need no stinkin' commas and even if I did I wouldn't let you know because who are you to tell me to slow down after all I am the one doing the writing not you and I should be able to determine my own punctuation and it's no big deal if we don't slow down these days that's what I say anyway because this is America where we get to do our own thing:

The government rushes in to solve another critical problem:

Wisconsin legislators have introduced a bill that outlines how divorcing couples and the courts should handle custody battles over pets.

Count me among them:

Many Americans seem to eschew traditional vacations — a trend that has some experts worried that workers are not getting away from their jobs to relax and recharge, both physically and mentally.

The reasons vary, from having too few vacation days available to lacking money for travel. But in some cases, it seems, many people just aren't getting into the habit of getting away.

OK, I give up. I'm on the global-warming bandwagon, too:

In North America's most renowned wine-growing region, Napa Valley in California, current conditions are near-perfect.

"You have the climate, you have ideal soils and a history of winemaking that goes back to the turn of last century. It's a combination of those things that makes Napa Valley unique," says Jeff Virnig, winemaker at Robert Sinskey Vineyards.

Dog adopts kitty - you just have to go "Awww."

If a study confirms an unfortunate stereotype, is that an indication the researchers might have let their preconceptions affect how they saw the evidence?

Men might throw their weight around at the office, but at home, women are the bosses.

A syndicated columnist calls it quits, with a little whining thrown in: