Things that will always be true

According to a Discover magazine blog:

A new study predicts that future women will be a tad shorter, heavier, and more fertile—that is, if the women who are currently most successful at producing children are any indication.

The shorter and heavier part are interesting. But the "more fertile" part? They look at the women who are "currently most successful at producing children", and find that... they have more children.

Small Business

Commenting on Obama's State of the Union address, Andrew Sullivan says:

9.26 pm. I loves me a Democrat who gets the vital importance of small business.

And at 9:26 PM, on his old colleague Matthew Yglesias' blog, commenter Josh G. writes:

Oh, god, not this fetishization of “small business” again.

Heh.