Like father, like daughter

Cat fight with a useful idiot Mt Rot drools after.

Unfazed by the train hitting the car

Minot? Isn't this on MFT's stomping grounds?

Nokia-fryed brains

The cell-phone wacko (is her name Rakhmaninov?) should be drawn and quartered. Only punishment that fits the crime.

Mr Rot at the wheel

Mr Rot in Rome

Rot at the wheel

Opportunity knocks

Mr Rot puts an ad on Craiglist

Exploding cell phones

Iceland is waiting

Franco-Mexican matador

Carrying water

Butt boy

An unnecessarily complicated mathematical model

The mathematical model considers a male and a female in a courtship encounter of unspecified duration, with the game ending when one or other party quits or the female accepts the male as a mate. The model assumes that the male is either a ''good'' or a ''bad'' type from the female's point of view, according to his condition or willingness to care for the young after mating. The female gets a positive payoff from mating if the male is a ''good'' male but a negative payoff if he is ''bad'', so it is in her interest to gain information about the male's type with the aim of avoiding mating with a "bad" male. In contrast, a male gets a positive payoff from mating with any female, though his payoff is higher if he is "good" than if he is "bad". Oh, c'mon! Is this how it works? [Add a pic, per JJ's request.]

Channeling moi

He looked the picture image of the disheveled academic. He paced back and forth, gesturing mildly as he spoke against the evils of iPods and "texting."

Take some oxytocin

.. and you'll feel much better: More frequent sex and more attention to breasts, Dr. Young said, could help build long-term bonds through a “cocktail of ancient neuropeptides,” like the oxytocin released during foreplay or orgasm. Researchers have achieved similar results by squirting oxytocin into people’s nostrils — not terribly sexy, but it seems to enhance feelings of trust and empathy.

But watch out: Suppose you took that potion and then suddenly felt an urge to run off with the next person you spent any time with, like your dentist? What if you went to a business convention and then, like an artificially stimulated prairie vole, bonded with the nearest stranger?

Now, now, JJ, take it easy

The injustice of it all

Point (JJ & Pepe, united at last): Ten-year-old girls are ready for marriage, according to Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric.

Counterpoint (AA): Meanwhile the head of the Catholic Church in Portugal is advising Portuguese women to think twice before marrying a Muslim.

MIT goes touchy-feely new-agey

Physics, taught the JJ way. “They might be looking intently at you, understanding everything. Or they might be thinking, ‘What am I going to do when I get out of this bloody class?’ ” Precisely.

Hog heaven

Other problems include the tendency to sweat more in zero gravity and a drop in blood pressure, potentially making sex in space a clammier experience and less easy for the man to rise to the occasion. Ah, don't worry. Go digital.