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Zen Poll: Happiness or a clean kitchen?
At the Momfy Blog, we pride ourselves on asking the tough questions and delving into the issues that matter for our loyal readers: in today’s post you will be forced to look deep inside yourself and answer a straightforward yet vexing question. Here’s the poll: Do you choose Eternal Happiness or a clean kitchen? We probably … Continue reading »
The Top Ten Gross Things Flight Attendants Have Seen Passengers Do on Airplanes
A flight attendant career is glamorous! Or so I thought! I admit, I signed up for the glamour eighteen years ago, but I quickly learned that most of the glamor was gone from this industry. I was on my second trip as a new hire flight attendant, my uniform was crisp, my hair was pulled back in … Continue reading »
Sex addicts of the world, unite: The DSM-V feels your pain
When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) – the definitive guide to diagnostic criteria used by U.S. mental health professionals – is updated next May (for the first time in 13 years) one of the new conditions in consideration to be among its pages is hypersexual disorder (HD). Known informally, if not entirely accurately, as “sex addiction,” HD’s inclusion in the … Continue reading »
The Internet in 2011 by the numbers [Royal Pingdom]
So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube? The website Royal Pingdom has posted answers to these questions … Continue reading »
Want your kids to be better liars? Punish them. [Jezebel]
Punishment Just Teaches Kids To Be Better Liars Screaming at your toddler for finger-painting your computer won’t deter future acts of deviant self-expression, but it will probably help her tell a more convincing lie in ten years about the missing vodka in your liquor cabinet. In a study most likely funded by crafty, far-sighted children hoping to … Continue reading »
Is Lady Gaga a Satanist Illuminati Slave?
Pop-music’s strangest conspiracy theories I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati—the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power—but I know he’s been trying very hard. Numerous people online tell me so. There is, for starters, a … Continue reading »
Marketing 101: Will Boring Package Design Make Teens Stop Smoking?
According to the British Heart Foundation, more than a quarter of teenagers make assumptions about the harm of cigarettes from the wrapping. Heart health campaigners urged the British government Thursday to follow Australia’s lead and ban all eye-catching designs and branding from cigarette packs to stop young people being lured into smoking. Australia is preparing to … Continue reading »
Ten Conservatives Vs. Newt: With Friends Like These…
Conservative opinion writers are competing in something of an arms race to see who can describe Newt Gingrich, whom most of them despise, in the most apocalyptic terms. Here’s a list, from The New Yorker, of ten of the most over-the-top takedowns from the right of the former Speaker of the House and current Republican … Continue reading »
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs
In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides blame each other for our economic mess, one argument has been repeated so often that many people now regard it as fact: ‘Rich people create the jobs.’ Specifically, entrepreneurs and investors, when incented by low taxes, build companies and create millions of … Continue reading »