Last May, two researchers from the Wharton School of Business published a paper called "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness." According to Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, the lives of women in the United States have improved over the last 35 years according to most objective measures, but "measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined absolutely and relative to men." When I first heard about the study, I thought that made sense because most women now work outside the home, and women have discovered what men have long known: most work is not fun.

Rating: 4.3/5

"Why do you pray to people who are dead?"

"Do you ask your friends to pray for you?" I responded.

"Yeah, but they aren't dead," my evangelical friend countered.

"Why should it matter if they are dead? I assume you believe in life after death."

"That's different."

But how is it different? My friend never answered the question.

Rating: 4.5/5

Mel Gibson's girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, is pregnant and it is a sordid affair. She is a 39 year old Russian opportunist who is divorced, has lived with several men, had a child out-of-wedlock and now plans to have another. He is a 53 year old not yet divorced father of seven. Evidently he has been keeping this woman and her son in one of his mansions for some time. This is not the lifestyle of a devout Roman Catholic. Do we cut him a break because he is the creator of The Passion of the Christ and a self-proclaimed sinner? Absolutely not!

Rating: 3.8/5