Just after I wrote my column in the Journal-Sentinel supporting NASA, maybe the weirdest story in the history of manned space flight broke.
Lisa Nowak, astronaut and BPN-certified wacko, drove all the way from her house in Houston to Orlando, Florida in order to confront a woman that Nowak believed was involved with William Oefelein, a space shuttle pilot.
I’ve always had the image of astronauts being 1950’s-style Johnny Americans, or in the case of women, Lucy Americans, but it’s my own fault for never thinking of the possibility that if we …

For my married readers:
Scientific research into the long debated question of whether the toilet seat should be up or down suggests that the social norm of leaving it down is actually inefficient.
An Indian economist, the latest scholar to weigh in on the issue, supports these findings but has devised a series of mathematic formulas to show that when the female “nag” factor is part of the equation, the man would rather deal with the inconvenience than hear the woman yell.
Yes, the nag factor is quite the variable.  Actually, seeing “female …