Happiness is a skill that can be learned.

It has long been assumed that economic prosperity brings happiness. However, the evidence is to the contrary. Economic growth in developed countries has gone hand-inhand with a rise in mental and behavioural disorders, family breakdown, social exclusion and diminished social trust. In China, for example, a 2009 study by German sociologists showed that the lifting of hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the 1990s has been accompanied by an alarming decrease in life satisfaction at every level of income, in both rural and urban areas.
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Happiness is a skill that can be learned.

from
Happiness breeds prosperity Nature, by F. Huppert
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/pdf/4641275a.pdf

The End of White Supremacy

The sequencing of the Neanderthal genome proves clearly that all human races, EXCEPT Africans, have 2-4 % of Neanderthal genes. Probably both species mated just after Homo sapiens left Africa. Would this explain why rednecks look (and behave) more archaic than the blacks they consider inferior?
In any way; unless you are African, let's embrace the Neanderthal in us!

Old Fashioned Chemistry

"Old Fashioned Ginger Snaps":
INGREDIENTS:
Wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, sugar, partially hydrogenated syobean and/or cottonseed oil, molasses, ginger, caramel color, salt, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, ammonium bicarbonate, cinnamon, dextrose, red pepper, high fructose corn syrup, cloves, coco processed with alkali, corn starch, soy lecithin, whey (milk), natural and artificial flavours.

- JUST LIKE IN THE GOOD OL' DAYS!