Nothing New today

1) Researchers are surprised to learn that changing demographics from farmers to monitor viewers might be contributing to the rise in obesity.

2) While those in the know gain in the stock market from insider information, the media is surprised to find that big D Democrats REALLY take advantage compared to the “known rich” Republicans.

Despite the GOP’s reputation as the party of the rich, House Republicans fared worse than their Democratic colleagues when it comes to investing, according to the study. The Democratic subsample of lawmakers beat the market by 73 basis points per month, or 9 percent annually, versus 18 basis points per month, or 2 percent annually, for the Republican sample.

“Given the almost folkloric belief that Wall Street invariably favors Republicans, the superior performance of trades made by Democratic representatives may seem surprising,” the study authors said.

Conclusion….the GOP just isn’t bright enough to take advantage of their positions.

One theory is that Democrats were the majority for most of the years under review and thus held more leadership posts, giving them greater access to nonpublic information. Once they took power in 1995, Republicans may have limited their ability to profit from the perks of political power because of their lack of leadership experience.

3) Those who believe in global warming (yes, warming, not climate change) are aghast that anyone would actually want to review their research.

Mann on Wednesday derided efforts to discredit his research.

“I think its very unfortunate that fossil fuel industry-funded climate change deniers … continue to harass U.Va., NASA, and other leading academic and scientific institutions with these frivolous attacks,” he said.