Women talk three times as much as men, says study

Truly some hilarious stuff in this scientific study:

women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day – 13,000 more than the average man

the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high.

“Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road,”

testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing – allowing men to become “deaf” to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends.

Or just plain deaf, period, no quotes, from all the yakking.

We cavemen have our own set of problems, though:

Dr Brizendine says the brain’s “sex processor” – the areas responsible for sexual thoughts – is twice as big as in men than in women, perhaps explaining why men are stereotyped as having sex on the mind.

Or, to put it another way, men have an international airport for dealing with thoughts about sex, “where women have an airfield nearby that lands small and private planes”.

Studies have shown that while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject tends to cross women’s minds just once a day, the University of California psychiatrist says.

“Airfield nearby”…landing strip…nyuk, nyuk (did it in 1 second).

Anyhoo…the great Fee Waybill knew all this decades ago:

It’s been six months / She hasn’t shut up once

DC, Norfolk, Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Columbia, Chicago, Detroit, NJ, Long Island, Boston, Stamford, Seattle, San Francisco, LA, Phoenix, Denver, Albuquerque, OKC, Tulsa, Indianapolis.

As rapidly as possible, preferably in the next two months. Whee.

And Houston and Dallas, but they’re windshield time, not airport time.

Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia

U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.

This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. “There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval,” says a senior official.

Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq’s growing Shia militias from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.

Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

Not that such a thing as Iranian IEDs* straight from the Iranian factories would ever make a bit of difference to the folks who think there is never not more diplomacizing that can be done. At a bare minimum, we need to drop a few crude JDAMs or MOABs on those Iranian IED factories from the latest stealth flying machine, and then act all surprised, and “Who? Me? Black market, bitches.” about it. Sauce, goose, gander, and piss on Ahmadi-Nejad and the mullahs.

* At what point does an Improvised Explosive Device turn into a regular old bomb? Me, I’d say that when they’re being manufactured in factories that are funded by a sovereign nation, they’re munitions, straight-up instruments of war. Which, you know, supplying munitions to kill Americans is an act of war, by my lights. But then, I’m a Jacksonian and a simpleton.