Interesting Items of Note

- Non-dieters are more successful at boosting their health than those ardent dieters, this study finds.

- The greates thinkers of the world - not Marx or Sartre, but perhaps...David Hume.

- Below is a funny little comment from Political Wire
Many Democratic fans of the Washington Nationals are buying baseball capswith an alternate "DC" logo instead of the more common cursive "W" because it reminds them of the current occupant of the White House, according to the Washington Post.

"During the design process, a baseball spokeswoman said, nobody made the connection to a certain political figure, for whom the same 23rd letter of the alphabet is a down-home nickname."