If I may brag on myself a little: I don’t know if any of you read Comics Curmudgeon, but I have read it pretty much daily for a long time now. I never commented until this past week, however, so imagine my surprise when my first ever comment was a runner-up for Comment of the Week! (Mine is the one attributed to Rizbon that mentions Papaya Dog.) See? If I could ever get a date, this wonderful thing never would have happened!
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Also, here’s some long overdue bad news that will surprise nobody except the people it effects.
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Also, click on this link and scroll down a bit to the part about the findings that happiness can be bad for you. Is it just me, or is this the most backward interpretation of cause-and-effect ever? People’s happiness level doesn’t (necessarily) determine their lifestyle – it’s the other way around. So, it seems to me that if the most extremely happy people earn less, have less education, and don’t live as long as moderately happy people, the simplest assumption (without really getting into the study) is that the lifestyles that cause the most extreme happiness are those that are bad for your wallet and your health. For example, a thrill-seeker is probably not really educated, always broke, and prone to premature death, but every day’s a freaking party. But here, the information is presented as if just being really joyful somehow causes you to earn less and die. Well, maybe that’s true, too. I don’t know.
