I hadn't watched Animal Planet's show River Monsters until I ran across a marathon over the holiday weekend.  I don't much care for "let's hunt 'em" shows, but River Monsters impressed me as being more of a travelogue than a hunting show.  And the host's insistence on releasing the caught fish unharmed sealed the deal.

After watching two episodes, the third turned out to land square in cryptozoological territory.  The first episode I saw was about the Giant Snakehead, the second about the Goliath Tigerfish, and the third was about the Lake Iliamna monster.


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Those scientists and researchers are at work again, busting their brains to come up with stuff. that --Well!

A survey, reported in yesterday's, (Tuesday), edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, of "50,000 Americans conducted in 2008 and 2009 for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that included questions on people's day-to-day happiness and their overall life satisfaction, (concluded) that Happiness got better as income rose but the effect leveled out at $75,000.. Their overall sense of success or well-being continued to rise as their earnings grew beyond that point."

But $75K is the happiness point, below that we're all miserable?

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Item from the Associated Press -- "NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday ..."

Yup. Discovered just a few days ago.

What else would they tell us? I don't ever expect to see a bulletin like this: 'Issuing non-bulletins from an abandon mine shaft, NASA brass have no comment on that giant shadow covering our planet earth.'

The AP item concludes -- "Asteroid 2010 RX30, thought to be 32 to 65 feet long, will pass within 154,000 miles of Earth shortly before 3 a.m. PDT Wednesday. The second one, dubbed 2010 RF12, will fly by about 11 hours later at a distance of about 49,000 miles. NASA says the second one is 20 to 46 feet long."

Huh, huh.

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