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Point: Don’t Marry Career Women
By Forbes Official Caveman Michael Noer

Was Forbes just trying to increase their web traffic? If you haven’t seen this article yet, here are some gems:

"To be clear, we're not talking about a high-school dropout minding a cash register. For our purposes, a "career girl" has a university-level (or higher) education, works more than 35 hours a week outside the home and makes more than $30,000 a year."
• Career GIRL?
• Also, he cast a pretty wide net for his list of women to not marry. Good luck, men, in your fight to the death over the remaining lucky ladies who will carry the future fruit of your loins. Because:

"If a host of studies are to be believed, marrying these women is asking for trouble. If they quit their jobs and stay home with the kids, they will be unhappy (Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003). They will be unhappy if they make more money than you do (Social Forces, 2006). You will be unhappy if they make more money than you do (Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001). You will be more likely to fall ill (American Journal of Sociology). Even your house will be dirtier (Institute for Social Research)."
• Poor men, getting sick and being forced to live in a dirty house. Hire a maid.
• What are these sources? The Journal of Marriage and Family is published by the National Council on Family Relations, a self-described non-profit, nonpartisan, nondenominational group funded by members. However, you have to actually be a member in order to view their member list and they don’t list the employment/qualification/affiliations of any of their Board of Directors.

"The other reason a career can hurt a marriage will be obvious to anyone who has seen their mate run off with a co-worker: When your spouse works outside the home, chances increase they'll meet someone they like more than you."
• Mmhm. I believe we have come to the root of Mr. Caveman’s issues.
• I have to wonder why Forbes acted as the forum for this guy's rage, when it should have been restricted to his MySpace profile, “AngryBachelor125.”

St. Ignace Post

OK, someone called my post of St. Ignace completely inaccurate (I deleted it in a fit of anger). To that anonymous commentator: apparently you didn't read the post. It's a photo post. I don't think that island is actually named after my brother and has made a national holiday of his birthday.
You should also know that my grandparents were born there, as was my father and myself. We moved when I was 3 and have been going back every year, usually in the depressing dead of winter. We still have a subscription to the St. Ignace newspaper, which comes to us here in Florida so that we can read about events such as the Les Cheneaux Venetian boat show and ask ourselves why we ever left the UP. If you have found inaccuracies, maybe you should let me know what they ARE. It would be far more constructive.

Aquarius

I am so much more comfortable in the water than I am on land. On land, I trip over nonexistent cracks in the sidewalk and walk into walls. Once I was just walking down K Street and my shoe flew off and landed about 15 feet ahead of me. My brother wants to start a blog that is just videos of me falling down and running into things.
But when I'm swimming, I can keep going for over a mile without losing my swimsuit or running into other swimmers. And OK... when I was on the swim team in high school and we were using kickboards, I would submerge the bottom half of my face and imagine I was an alligator. (Right, high school. I did it this afternoon.)