Reality Check: Another Study to Confirm the Obvious

The University of Montreal tells us that women are better at identifying emotional responses than men. My first reaction was, "And someone thought we needed a study to figure that out?" But then I remembered that this is a university. Yes, they needed a study to remind them girls and boys really are different even on the inside.

Side note: Evolutionary psychology is almost as big a waste of time and money as xenobiology. Almost.

Parents Know

They might get some of the details wrong, but when it comes to your essential character, your parents will always know you better than you will ever know yourself.

Now I Understand

Tents, food, drink, singing, dancing...what's not to love? Poverty, homelessness, fire ants, mosquitoes, damp, humidity, and the potential for scorpions and poisonous snakes. If one week is this much fun, I can only imagine forty years, and I don't even have to deal with a latrine! I completely understand the Israelites' grumpiness in the wilderness.