Thoughts Out Of Season

It turns out that the old adage - espoused by many and believed by none - that money can't buy happiness has been debunked. A Harvard Professor  found that people who can afford things that are transient, "experiences" as she puts it are generally happier than those that cannot. People who spend freely on "Experiences" such as vacations, eating out with friends, visiting new friends who charge by the hour for their time... were generally happier than those who could only afford "things", such as food, shelter and the occasional Craigslist shopping spree that involves haggling a seller of a $30  watch down to $3.50. To quote: "Because experiences disappear, they let us make up a reality that was amazing and wonderful, and they make us happier," than stuff, Norton said. So in a sense what she really means here is that money can indeed buy happiness in ways that leave us delusional and perhaps borderline schizophrenic 

A Heritage Foundation scholar ( an oxymoron if I ever heard one) was given his walking papers following outrage over his 2009 Phd dissertation that concluded that Hispanics have lower IQ's than do native whites (whatever that means). Jason Richwine went on to muse whether Hispanics would ever catch up to white people and whether the United States should consider such a notion when deciding who to let immigrate to the United States since, to paraphrase Mr. Richwine "If the parents are dumb than most likely their children will be dumb, only good for stealing our hubcaps and making our virtuous daughters pregnant". Now beside the fact that this knuckle dragging imbecile is just that, an imbecile, lets look at a few points that make this even more interesting: He used this dissertation to gain his Phd  not from "Joe's Phd and Toilet Supplies, Inc" or 'The College of Male Enhancement Studies" but from Harvard, the most admired and prestigious sites of...