- The Telegraph reports today that "Men really can laugh women into bed, because a sense of humour makes them seem more intelligent, psychologists have found." Oh! Well, that finally explains my weird attraction Carlo Rota.
- In a teeny study of 25 people, psychologists found that "Patients who received Botox treatment were found to be significantly less depressed, anxious and irritable than those who did not." Clearly that explains why Madonna and Lisa Rinna are so giddy all the time.
- Speaking of giddy, who isn't peeing their pants over this pairing?
- Back to Madonna: you're going to be sick of this by the end of the day, but Madonna's superfast adoption of Mercy James seems to have gone through.
- Moms on Twitter should find out about Mom It Forward (or maybe they do already and I'm the only tweeting mom who's like, "What the hell is #GNO?")
- The lowest point in a day that has only just begun: the news that Hamid Karzi, the Western-backed leader of Afghanistan, "has signed a law the UN says legalises rape in marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission."
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I totally wish the whole Afghanistan thing was an April fool’s day prank. It makes me feel like we are a bunch of chumps – here we go again, western backed leader totally doing shitty things. Haven’t we learned anything? But, then what else can we do? One of the commentators on the Globe website suggested that when the western world goes into places like this we should not allow for local governments…but that doesn’t sound like a great solution, neither does immediately pulling out our troops (although with a cousin soon to be deployed, I, selfishly, wish for this daily), nor does it seem to be a solution to never do anything about these things in the first place. I feel though, like we never learn our lesson. History shows us that the cornerstone of issues like this stem from a deep rooted belief system – usually stemming from religious teaching and beliefs – and, how do you change that belief system? I have serious doubts that it is going to be accomplished through forceful takeover. It’s going to be accomplished through education and discussion….and that takes a very long time. Maybe that’s why it’s not something that happens often. I’m reminded of watching the movie Charlie Wilson’s War and feeling a sense of hope, only to have that shot down at the end of the movie when Charlie goes to ask for money to build schools in Afghanistan and is laughed out of the building. If only those schools had been built, and the process of changing perceptions begun, we might be on the road to ensuring equal rights for women in Afghanistan, instead we are back in Afghanistan with weapons and what seems like no hope for the people we are trying to ‘help’.
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