Well, once again Time Magazine has passed me over for Person of the Year. Instead they chose somebody called “The Protester.”

I protest.

In other news, I was floored by this article from Psychology Today (tip: Conservative Grapevine). In it, psychologists Allan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa come right out and say a number of things we’ve all known all the time, but nobody in the public eye has had the nerve to say out loud. Like, gentlemen prefer blondes. And most suicide bombers are Muslims. And it isn’t sexism that leads to sexual harrassment in the workplace.

Human behavior is a product both of our innate human nature and of our individual experience and environment. In this article, however, we emphasize biological influences on human behavior, because most social scientists explain human behavior as if evolution stops at the neck and as if our behavior is a product almost entirely of environment and socialization. In contrast, evolutionary psychologists see human nature as a collection of psychological adaptations that often operate beneath conscious thinking to solve problems of survival and reproduction by predisposing us to think or feel in certain ways. Our preference for sweets and fats is an evolved psychological mechanism. We do not consciously choose to like sweets and fats; they just taste good to us.

The authors operate from an evolutionary point of view, but in general a Christian can accept all these statements, it seems to me, on the basis of our belief in original sin.