Random Tidbits (updated)

  • How to say that you've been beaten? The Airbus A380 is "too quiet" (from Boeing's VP for Marketing)
  • A new pushback surcharge? The CRJ7 plane, with 69 passengers and seven crew members on board, had just flown from Guilin in the south of China, to Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province. The plane landed safely but then died before it could taxi to the arrivals terminal. ... The staff could not push the airplane on its own, so the passengers were asked to pitch in.(Fox News)
  • Surprise, surprise: another book on why people are leaving the church suggests shallowness as the problem
  • Complementarian men earn more money on average than egalitarians. $8500 per year more according to the study, whereas complementarian wives average $1500 less income per year than their egalitarian counterparts. Still for a complementarian couple, on average that's a net gain of $6000 per year