Apparently, kids are more socially aggressive and disobedient when they have to hold and bite their food than when they can use utensils and chew it, say researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Writing in the journal Eating Behaviors, lead author Brian Wansink, professor and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, and colleagues describe how they found kids aged 6 to 10 were much rowdier when given foods they had to bite with their front teeth - such as corn on the cob, drumsticks and whole apples - than when these foods had been cut up.

"They were twice as likely to disobey adults and twice as aggressive toward other kids," says Prof. Wansink.

It's a little surreal to see someone running TV spots ($100K worth!) attacking American Idol runner-up and Democratic house primary candidate, Clay Aiken. I guess someone thinks he's a threat. Though, frankly, I doubt it's going to be anything but a GOP rout in November, no matter which Dem wins the primary.

Took me 43 years, but I got my first tick today!

Maybe walking around the 1/2 acre of pine straw, in shorts, weed-whacking the stray grass wasn't my best idea.

Now I get to wait and see if I have Lyme disease!

Because why would life ever get simpler?

"Akula" is the Russian word for "shark".

iPhone

Here's something a Solid State Drive can do that I've never seen a normal drive do: when shut down due to a system crash, silently sprinkle an untold number of read errors all over the file system.

And you won't know about it until you notice that a some apps have started failing in strange ways, that random files have become corrupt, that Visual Studio will start, but it won't compile anything because some DLL somewhere is broken.

And then you look in the system events logs and notice the hundreds of read errors.

How can you tell which apps were affected without running them and testing every bit of functionality? You can't! How do you know if parts of Windows itself were affected? You can't!

This is an exciting time to own a PC.

I think Jesus said that.

On yesterday's radio broadcast, Bryan Fischer read from a recent Wall Street Journal article reporting that the top 1% of Americans account for nearly 30% of all federal tax revenue.

To Fischer, the poor and middle class families in this country "ought to be kissing the ground on which [the rich] walk" because it is the top 1% that is paying for EBT cards and food stamps and federal housing.

The rich, Fischer asserted "ought to be given ticker tape parades once a week in all of our major cities to thank them for funding welfare for everybody"

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What you need to do is to find a guy with some money, marry him, and STFU about how much you earn.

By the end of the month, there will be pressure on CBS to change their mind about having Colbert replace Letterman from "conservatives" who think Colbert is insufficiently "conservative" for America.

O'Reilly and Shapiro have started laying the foundation.