Don’t marry a career woman! Professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. And even “feminists” are happier when the man brings home the biggest paycheck!

Got Carpel Tunnel? It may be a sign of impending diabetes. A UK study shows that the problem can predate the onset of diabetes by up to 10 years.

For 50 years Detroit has been experiencing white flight, and now blacks are following suit. For first time, Detroit’s black population falls. “The numbers suggest Detroit may be at the start of a black exodus rivaling that of whites after World War II.” Most worrying is that it’s middle-class blacks that are leaving and they are the ones sustaining the city.

Lordy, lordy! Who woke up Al Sharpton?

Many black youths fall under a spell of “gangster mentality,” preventing them from becoming leaders and making a positive impact in politics, the Rev. Al Sharpton said.

The civil rights activist faulted Hollywood and the record industry for making “gangsterism” seem cool and acceptable.

“I think we’ve allowed a whole generation of young people to feel that if they’re focused, they’re not black enough. If they speak well and act well, they’re acting white, and there’s nothing more racist than that.“

I think he’s channeling Bill Cosby!

When Mannequins attack! A California woman (of course) is suing JC Penney because as a sales assistant took a blouse off the ferocious mannequin, the arm “flew off” and struck the dingbat lady in the head. This is one magical arm: not only did it gash her scalp, it also allegedly cracked a molar and left the woman with recurring shoulder pain. This is in California, folks. I wonder, did the store have a license for a “deadly dummy” license and, if so, did they comply with those strict trigger arm lock rules?

Woman goes to San Fran to protest the impending liberation of Iraq, woman (and a friend) stands on the upper deck of a bus, woman (nor friend) doesn’t see Broadway Tunnel signs, woman’s head slams into ceiling of tunnel, woman (and a friend) dies, woman’s family sues. Tragic, yes, but doesn’t this just reek of hippiedom?

The vehicle was a former school bus topped by the joined upper sections of two Volkswagen vans with sunroofs, the court said. Its height was 12 feet, 10 1/2 inches.

Canning and several other passengers were standing in the upper level, their heads through the sunroofs, when the bus entered the tunnel’s nearly 20-foot-high west end under Hyde Street. At the eastern exit, which dips abruptly to 13 feet, 6 inches, she and Anthony Hernandez, 43, of Woodacre, were fatally injured when their heads struck the ceiling.

Thankfully, the court threw out the family’s suit.

And while we’re on the subject of courts doing the right thing (a subject rarely discussed), a federal judge in Oklahoma (Bush by 32 points)  ruled that a Ten Commandments monument did not have to be removed from a courthouse lawn. The ACLU lawyer described the decision as “a loss for religious freedom“.

From the “good news, bad news” department, far fewer Vietnam veterans suffered from combat stress than previously thought. A study in the 80s indicated that as many as 1 in 3 combat vets suffered from PTSD, whereas a new study puts this number at 1 in 5. The bad news, of course, is the 20 percent that did suffer the condition and the fact that 9 percent are still suffering over 30 years after the war.

Wanna kiss your cousin but are afraid of the stigma? Only in America, it seems — and only in 24 states. John Stossel informs us that the genetic risks are minimal and worldwide 20 percent of all married couples are cousins:

The laws date back hundreds of years to the time when the Catholic Church campaigned against cousin marriages because in the Bible Leviticus says, “none of you shall approach to any that is near of kin.”