A Cambridge University psychologist has determined that you can, actually, account for taste, and found five distinct categories (two high-brow, three low-brow) that people gravitate toward. In a related study, it was found that no one really cares if class-based assumptions and confirmation bias might play a role in the conclusions reached by social scientists.
MTV desperately trying to distance themselves from the one thing that made their video awards show watchable in years.
China planning to relax their “one child” rule, citing the need for more children to care for an …

Esquire writer shocked to discover simple fact that every man who doesn’t buy Esquire has known for years.
Makers of those annoying games that clutter up your Facebook have allegedly found other people’s ideas on their farm.
Scientists determine which dance moves make men most attractive to women. Strangely, the “Employed Man Who Owns His Own House And Is Looking For A Commitment Shuffle” not included in their list.
Music videos enjoying a resurgence on the internet, where people can see just the videos they want, as many times as they want, with …

poll by twiigs.com

BP’s report on oil spill reveals that almost all the blame can be assigned to other parties and that BP is almost completely blameless, the pure, innocent victims of other people’s incompetence. BP executives call press conference to wash their hands in front of reporters.
Mark David Chapman denied parole once again. McCartney’s murderer/doppelganger still at large.
Changes in how a search engine works apparently news.

Further Reading
The British Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal
What the officer and the minister said about hacking…and what they didn’t.

Montana Tea Party head fired after making jokes about killing gay people on Facebook. Well, not so much fired for making the joke, as for getting caught making the joke in a public forum and making the Tea Party look like a bunch of bigoted thugs.
Millionaires spending billions of dollars of their own money to get elected to public offices that pay them less than they’re spending to get elected. Apparently in this economy doing it yourself instead of hiring someone to do it for you even applies to buying …

Assuming the job market ever improves, the only fields that will have openings are high-skilled positions such as lawyers and research scientists, or minimum wage retail jobs. In other words, you are never finding a full-time job again.
Your kitchen is filthy and disgusting.
Experts concerned that delaying kindergarten keeps children out of the work force for too long. Which is the only possible reason anyone should care about school.

Get the smelling salts handy: incidence of “anchor baby” births may have been exaggerated for political purposes.
Rhetorical questions useful for downplaying the long history of civil rights violations and ethical complaints lodged against controversial Arizona sheriff.
Physicist says something completely non-controversial.
Clearly salmonella outbreak at egg farm can be blamed on overly broad and onerous government regulation. Clearly.
Rock Band video game franchise to add hip-hop tracks to game. Gamers explain that the reason they didn’t buy it was because they have no extra cash this week, not that, you know, they have …

Scotland Yard may have shielded Murdoch newspapers from investigation in hacking scheme. Law enforcement personnel colluding with rabidly right-wing media? How utterly, utterly, utterly unheard of.
BBC examines reasons why donations for flood relief in Pakistan have been so slow to arrive. Yeah, they’re pretty much EXACTLY what you’d expect.
High ratings for Deepwater Horizon story prompts sequel.
Newspapers running articles on stupid things young people do pretty much just catering to their remaining audience.

Colleges worried that taking photos of young, well-muscled athletes posing shirtless, smeared with baby oil, flexing their muscles and gazing longingly into the camera, might send the wrong message.
Solar activity may affect rates of radioactive decay, therefore the Shroud of Turin is real.
Major global-warming skeptic now admits that global-warming is a serious threat. “This is totally not about selling my new book now that sales of my anti-global-warming book have dried up,” scientist claims.
Boy Scouts continue proud tradition of touching young men’s lives.
CEOs at companies that laid off most workers …