Tim Finnegan

My goodness, William Saletan really hates fat people.

My good friend, also named Tim, has been visiting this week. He doesn't sympathise with the adversity a pudgy fellow has to face, but since he teaches at a public school in Newark, he probably deals more with other kinds of adversity. Still, it's heka surprizing, since most Green party members like him are known for their compassion and acceptance of all people, even the zoftig.

Getting it awwwn

A new survey caught my eye today. The gist of it is that smart people are far more likely to be virgins. Specifically, "[e]ach additional point of IQ increased the odds of virginity by 2.7% for males and 1.7% for females." I must have been really smart in college. Things have improved in that department since I moved west, probably because I am surround by more smart people here in Seattle than I was when I lived in Manayunk, although my one unfortunate dalliance with the ladies occurred while I was at Penn.

Even more interesting was the graph showing virginity my academic major. 0% of the art majors were virgin -- no surprise there. I wasn't sure what category sociology majors fell into. Anthropology is kind of similar, and is one of the more promiscuous majors. It's also similar to psychology, which has a majority-virgin population.

The study also said that Princeton was the most virginal of all the Ivy League schools. Again, this is not much of a surprise to anyone who has ever known anyone from Princeton. Oh, heck no.