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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Symphonic Saturday Edition Posted: 15 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST We don’t know how fortunate we are to live in today’s world, with such a wonder as the Internet at our fingertips. I was surfing around YouTube a day or so ago, doing nothing more than watching clips from great orchestral performances of years past. Ten years ago, I would have had to find them on videotape or hope my local PBS station ran them one weekend. Now, it takes about ten seconds for me to find Frederic Friscay conducting Smetana’s “Vlatava” from The Moldau or Leonard Bernstein directing his own Candide Overture. That, I think, is a bit of an everyday miracle, something we take more than just a little bit for granted. Maybe it’d be worth your time to surf around YouTube this weekend and see what gems you find. Post them in the comments so we can all enjoy them! And now, links! This is what a kleptocracy looks like. If we’re not diligent in our duties as citizens, there are likely to be a lot more of these in the very near future. You probably won’t be surprised to know that the lone socialist in Congress is really not happy at the prospect of losing a little chunk of American socialism. Stacy McCain found a great quote on the relationship between the Tea Parties and the academic elite. Ronald Reagan, Jr. is a sad little man who is throwing away a birthright that, quite literally, millions of Americans would love to have. The Republicans should remember who their friends are and who they are not or their time in the majority is going to be very short. No one is above a little Twitter hashtag whimsy. A dubeshag? Yeah, okay, I could be one.

Breaking: Scientists Reveal Yet Another Fact We All Knew Posted: 14 Jan 2011 12:16 PM PST Glenn Reynolds tossed up a link to this story on marital happiness and, strangely enough, didn’t go for the obvious punchline. Ladies: Are you nervously watching your weight to stay attractive for your husband or boyfriend? Well, put down those salad forks. It turns out you don't have to starve yourself — unless he's doing so, too. A study just published in the journalSocial Psychological and Personality Science finds a correlation between weight (as measured by body mass index, or BMI) and marital satisfaction. But the key variable is the relationship between the spouses' BMIs. It seems a couple is more likely to experience marital bliss when the wife is at least somewhat thinner than her husband. In other words: A womens self-esteem is tied to her own opinion of her body (Duh). Matiral bliss is tied strongly to the wife’s self-esteem (Duh!) A woman is more likely to be happy with her body when she’s not the fattest one of the couple (DUH!). What I want to know is how much this study cost. If the University of Tennessee spent more than a couple hundred dollars for someone with half a grain of common sense to pound it out, then they got ripped off. I suspect there was a Federal pork project somewhere involved.

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